Please vote for your favourite poem or poems!
We are delighted to announce the finalists of the 2025 Poetry of Science competition. The Festival received hundreds of poems and the judges were very impressed with the quality of the entries.
Now it’s your chance to vote for the People’s Choice winner.
Voting closes on Friday 3 October 2025. The Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice winners will be announced at a special Poetry of Science event on Saturday 18 October at Oxford Westgate Library, Queen Street, Oxford OX1 1PE.
Vote now
Click on the poems below to read them, then follow the link to vote for your favourite(s).
My Body by Maryam, age 5
Sugar Bugs, Go Away! by Yui Shun, age 5
Rainforest by George, age 6
Exoplanets Explained by William, age 7
Germination by Peter, age 8
EleMenT-iuM by Frances, age 10
The Stars Outside by William, age 10
The Shape of Change by Louise, age 11
The neuro-fabric of memory by Jamila, age 12
A souring womb of salt by Aanya, age 14
The Trickster – Song of a Mimic Octopus by Elizabeth, age 15
Something from nothing by Charlotte, age 15
We are grateful to Oxford Brookes University, Science Learning Partnership, OX Magazine, Read & Co, Cambridge University Press, Artful Fox Creatives, Bonnier Books, Quarto, Peneteract Press, John Adams, Big Cat Books, The Emma Press, Seren Books, Valley Press, Magic Cat and Swift Press for supporting this competition.
