This new prize is a great way to honour a great poet while simultaneously introducing young people to the thrill of poetry.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy

What an excellent website! Great to see John Betjeman living on here. Poetry is a way of looking at life and wondering about it in ways that interest us. Betjeman himself did that in many ways and I hope this competition inspires young people to read his work and of course write poetry themselves.
Michael Rosen

I wish the John Betjeman Poetry Competition for Young People existed when I was 10 - it would have been like a second Christmas! You lot don't know how lucky you are!
Laura Dockrill