Ambitious poet wins national competition

A TALENTED English student has won a national poetry competition.

Emily Groves, 18, a Year 13 pupil at Queensmead School in Queens Walk, South Ruislip, won the teenage category of the Daily Telegraph's Poetry for Performance competition.

The results were published, along with her poem, in the Sunday Telegraph this weekend and she got to watch her poem being performed by an actor at a theatre in Kingston last night (Mon) and even got to meet the poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

Emily, of Victoria Road, South Ruislip, said: "I found out I had won on my 18th birthday and it made my day.

"I always write poetry because I love to do it. It's what I want to do when I'm older.

"My favourite poets write about life and that's what I write about.

"The poem I sent in was called Size Eights and I wrote it about five months ago. It had to be about relationships and mine was about an ex boyfriend.

"I have entered other competitions but I have never really got anywhere so I was really surprised to win."

Emily also won the Gazette award at Queensmead School in September for her achievements in English.