We are delighted to share the Top 100 poems from the competition here

We hope you enjoy this selection of inspiring, moving and, sometimes heartbreaking, poetry.

In addition to the winners of the competition we have also selected a diverse range of other entries to give our Top 100 Poems. Together, these celebrate the many different kinds of key workers who serve us day in, day out. Some are written by key workers themselves. Each poem is reproduced by kind permission of the author, with whom the copyright remains.

Poems are grouped by their competition categories - Growing Word, Spoken Word and Written Word - and the Written Word is loosely grouped into four key worker themes of ‘head’, ‘hand’, ‘heart’ and ‘soul’. We love these poems, they are full of life and love - we hope you like them too.