Essex Poetry festival
 
   

ESSEX YOUNG POET OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2011

Winners

This years Essex Young poet of the Year is


Aniket Bharadwaj


for his poem An Unwanted Fracture

young essex poet of the year 2011

 

Other winners were

7 and Under
1st   Attention  Drew Lieschling Schroder
2nd  Evacuees  Billy Reynolds
3rd  Seaside   Amy Overing
 
Highly Commended
I Saw a Crab  Neve Harrison
Bella the Bee  Katie Robertson

               

11 and Under
1st  Chinese New Year   Charlene Cheung
2nd  Dream   Eleanor Randall
3rd  Ten Little Children    Anna Moore

               

Highly Commended
Shark Value  Harry Dudman
First Race  Amy Hopkins
Animal Poem by Numbers   Harriot Smith
My Magic Box   Hannah Spicer
Fear   Harriot Smith
My Nans   Freya Mason
The Snow Terror   Charlie Murray
 
14 and Under

1st  Shadow of the Past   Joseph Kania
2nd  Enlightenment   Joe Slade
3rd  Man Monster   Joseph Kania

Highly Commended
Marriage   Blythe Acres
The Soldier   Louis Mayo
Man on Duty   James Ottewell
A Puberty Poem    Paige Chesterman
I See Through You    Joseph Kania

16 and Under
1st  An Unwanted Fracture   Aniket Bharadwaj
2nd  Park Bench   Leo Connell
3rd  Are You Really Up For It?   Aniket Bharadwaj

 

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"This is what a Poetry Festival should be -- lively and serious, with a variety of events to exchange and celebrate poetry." Maurice Riordan