Amy Blakemore - Foyle Young Poet of the Year
Monday, April 27th, 2009Amy Blakemore has been honoured for the second time with the Foyle
Young Poet of the Year award. Read about her and her amazing achievement on the Times Online, the article was also published in the Sunday Times
Magazine last weekend.
Well done Amy, we are delighted for you and very proud of you and your achievement.
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The Times Online: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6044758.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
Amy Blakemore, currently studying English Literature, History, Philosophy and Ethics at A level in our Sixth Form has been for two years one of the 15 overall winners of the prestigious Foyle Young poets of the Year Award in 2007 and again in 2008; this award is the number one poetry award for young people from 11-17 recognising and rewarding the brightest future stars of the poetry world.
Each year the number of entries is extremely high level – nearly 10,000 poems are entered from all over the world. The winners’ top prize is a course at the world-renowned creative-writing Arvon Centre; Amy has now attended the Arvon Centre for two consecutive years, she has been tutored by poets and made real friends of other young poetry prize winners, some of whom came to Bacon’s this academic year and read their poetry to a Sixth Form audience.
The winners revealed that for young poets all over the world, poetry is a special means of providing a distinctive voice in world full of its own noise – it can make its voice heard above all the distractions. The young poets show that it is possible to unite with a universal identity through their use of language.
Ms James