This 5 minute ‘spoken word’ video was just sent to me by a teaching friend of mine who was searching for some performance poetry for one of her English language classes. I found it really powerful and moving and made me think first of all what is poetry? I also thought the theme was really interesting, an exploration of society’s attitude to young people and exams and whether our schools are drumming hope, creativity and other avenues of potential out of lots of our kids by making them jump almost exclusively through academic hoops in order for the school and the child to be “competitive”.