We are delighted to announce the finalists of the 2022 Poetry of Science competition. The Festival received hundreds of poems and the judges were very impressed with the quality of the entries.
The Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice winners were announced at the Poetry of Science event on Saturday 8 October at Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford.
Here are the finalist poems: Poetry of Science 2022 anthology
I love you like a worm by Charlotte, age 5
Why Science? by Chen, age 7
Electricity by Charlotte, age 8
F=M*A by Nia, age 10
Bones by Oliver, age 10
Ballooning by Emily, age 10
Dark Space by Millicent, age 11
Water Pollution by Hugo, age 12
Supernova by Eleni, age 13
The Great Dinosaur Mystery by Vu-Lam, age 13
We are grateful to OX Magazine, John Adams, Nosy Crow, Bloomsbury and Oxford Brookes University for supporting this competition.