Wednesday 8th October 2008
Tonbridge has had its most successful year ever in the prestigious Young Poet of the Year awards. Matthew Aydon (WW), Oliver Colegrave (HS), Charlie Hooper (SH), Joseph McManners (Sc) and Andrew Wynn Owen (SH) were all selected, in a competition of 12000 entrants, as Foyle Young Poets of the Year. Andrew is one of the 15 specially commended winners whose work will be published in the nationally circulated anthology.
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is Britain's most prestigious poetry prize for young writers between the ages of 11-17; each year the hundred best young poets in the UK and beyond are selected. Judges of the competition are published prize-winning poets Eva Salzman and Ian McMillan.
Richard Evans, Head of English at Tonbridge, has also been recognized - he has been selected by the Poetry Society as one of the eight leading teachers of poetry in the UK. Bea Colley, the Education Manager of the Poetry Society says that he has "demonstrated the highest level of dedications to teaching poetry in school"