I AM writing to ask all local schools in your area to join me in setting a world record and raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
The charity has joined forces with the Wordsworth Trust to celebrate 200 years of Wordsworth's famous daffodils poem 'I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud' and is attempting to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the world's largest reading aloud, in this case a poetry recital. The record attempt - 'Words Worth Reading' - will take place in schools across the UK at 9.15am on Friday, March 19 and we hope to attract at least 150,000 school children to take part. Words Worth Reading is a unique partnership between Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Wordsworth Trust, a charity that provides a living memorial to the life and work of one of England's greatest poets and promotes enjoyment of poetry.
ANDREW MOTION, Poet Laureate, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Albert Embankment, London.
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