a teen from Hailsham has gained a countrywide award for a poem.
17-year-historical Libby Russell's work stood out from greater than eleven,000 other poems to turn into a winner of the Poetry Society's Foyle young Poets of the 12 months Award.
Described because the biggest poetry competitors on the planet, it's aimed at eleven-17-yr-olds and previous winners encompass online game of Thrones famous person Ellie Kendrick and Sarah Howe, who went on to be a TS Elliot prize winner.
This year's winners obtained their awards on Wednesday (October 2) on the Royal festival corridor.
Libby turned into among the precise 15 winners out of 6,000 young poets that entered this yr from all over the world.
younger writers from seventy six nations entered the competition, from as a ways afield as Vietnam, Romania, Mexico and Japan.
The winners have been chosen by using this yr's judges Jackie Kay and Raymond Antrobus.
Libby's poem, A be aware of tips, is copied beneath in full.
A word of information by means of Libby Russell
cease falling in love with individuals you might write poems about.
cease tripping over and drowning your self in metaphors
And obsessing over similes
Like your foolish white shirt is clouding your judgement.
face up to these with whom you can be Radcliffian,
Fall in love with nobody in any method Byronic,
Or people who may additionally resemble, in any experience, the rose.
don't fall in love with a person who may
power you down a dual carriageway at nighttime and
Make it feel like you have been flying, dizzy
On the vitality and the need and the kissing
And the kissing and the kissing.
Minimise the ways through which your love is Italian,
and ensure that it's by no means French.
just be a bit of British in regards to the whole thing.
evade high-quality passion – hold your head.
It can not conclusion in anything
improved than a rhyming couplet.
Fall in love with a person who's prose at most reliable.
someone you could write a piece of writing about -
A conversational, informational blog,
a person healthy for the BBC homepage on a Sunday:
Sticking to the data with just a splash of emotion.
possibly discover somebody with clammy arms
so that you gained't intellect letting go.
someone who has kissing down to a fine art,
by which I imply, a neatly framed watercolour:
company pecks – you could call them sobering -
Lipless; well mannered, with simply a touch of affection.
Don't get used to kissing in Kadinsky colours –
find somebody you could go gray with.
Hurdle the white wood fence and tumble
through the window of a semi-detached,
Onto the sofa next to the sensible alternative –
someone you might take domestic to your mom –
a person that you may sit down with, woodenly,
With the cat, and a cup of tea,
And 'Songs of praise' presenting the soundtrack
To your home tedium.
settle down. grow up. Come to phrases
With the fact that love like that
just isn't for the likes of you.
It belongs to other individuals, sealed away
Between the pages of an anthology,
(suppose 'The Nation's ordinary Love Poems')
Stowed secretly, adulterously, away in a nightstand.
lifestyles might be satisfactory, and you'll get along simply great,
as a result of a tree grown in the dead of night can in no way omit the solar.
consider settling for a person you may safely are living without,
however please – cease falling in love with individuals you may write poems about.
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