Poetry24 is a blog for news-related poetry. Do you have something to say about current events in the world? Can you say it evocatively, with passion, rage, compassion and/or humour?

We've already published excellent poems from UK, Ireland, USA, Canada and Australia on an extraordinary range of subjects from fat-cats to Fukushima, Libya to Liz Taylor. But we'd love to have younger people's contributions on the site too – their reactions (in poetic form) to world events. In fact, one of the inspirations for setting up the blog was this poem written by a 15 year old English girl written in 1969 during the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Check out the submission guidelines and send up to 2 poems to clare@clarekirwan.co.uk and martinthodges@gmail.com for a quick response.