Eleven students, who are studying a range of English courses including AS and A2 English Literature and Language and GCSE English Language, decided to enter the Young Writers’ The Poetry Games Competition, as a way to develop their writing skills.
The poems were selected to feature in The Poetry Games Birmingham and Wolverhampton Anthology, which will be published in February 2013. Some of the
students may also be picked to go on to the next stage of the national poetry
competition. (Good luck everyone!)
AS Level
English Language and Literature students Shakila Begum and Ruth Matanda are two
of the students who will see their poems in print. Ruth’s poem ‘Beauty is
Pain’ is about a person who tries to re-model himself through plastic surgery,
whilst Shakila’s poem ‘Wild Child’ explores themes of culture and
society when a rich African boy tries to embrace a different life through
animal eyes.
The poems
being published in The Poetry Games Birmingham and Wolverhampton Anthology are listed below. You can click on the links below to read some of the poems.
Blackberries
by Esme Brown
Wild Child by
Shakila Begum
With Life
Comes Death by Jane Ellis
Beauty is
Pain by Ruth Matanda
Lagoon in
Eden by Alex Pedley
True Feelings
by Jimi Oketunji
Waste of
Words by Corey Weekes
The
Immaculate Conception by Robin Jennings
It Wasn’t Me
by Reice Reilly
