The Harry Carlton – PB Consulting Poetry Prize 2008
Rock and Rhyme 2008
"WORK"
On Tuesday 18th November the school hosted the latest in our evenings of Rock and Rhyme to celebrate the winning poems in or annual poetry competition.
The Harry Carlton Poetry Prize has been running since 2005. Over 300 students have entered poems in each of the four years and the standard has remained high throughout.
Each year we follow the National Poetry Society theme. ‘The Future’, ‘Identity’ and ‘Dreams’ have been tackled by our students in recent years. This year the subject was ‘WORK’ and this proved to be both challenging and thought provoking.
The enthusiasm for the competition remains high and we were particularly pleased with the variety and quality of the entries. There was a Poet’s Friend and a Little Toaster and we were encouraged to find out Who Works for the Workers. There was some Emotional Work, a Waster and a Little Chimney Sweep – and a reminder Treacherous Teachers know that Homework is Rubbish! These can all be found in this year’s anthology.
Thanks must go to the many students and staff who make this competition possible. The support the English Department is particularly important and much appreciated.
Thanks also to the tutors and other staff who encouraged, helped with typing and voting and supported the students in their efforts.
Winners List 2008
Click here to download a copy of all the poems by this years finalists
Year 7: Jasmin El Alami
Year 8 Winner: Robert Hayes
Year 9 Winner: Chloe Johnson
Year 10 Winner: Huw Foden
Year 11 Winner: Charlotte Harrison
Sixth Form Winner: Tamsin Cowell
Best Foreign Language Poem: Max Cameron
2008 Overall Winner: Tamsin Cowell
The poems were presented at our evening of Rock and Rhyme. The students read out their poems and were supported by live music from ‘Blue Horizon’ led by Martin Clayton of Year 12.
Special thanks, once again, to Mr John Woodward of PB Consulting who sponsors the whole project. John has a long standing love of poetry having written and published his, and other people’s, work through BK Poems.
J Carrick
November 2008
