Poetry Trials – Ballymena
Ballymena Today Youth team tackle the Poetry Trials! Last Year, my English class was given the task of writing a poem. These poems could have any theme of our own choice, and we were pretty much given free rein to do with it whatever we liked. There were certain rules and guidelines, such as not writing more than 30 lines, it must completely be our own work etc., but there were not many. We were then told as a class that as well as being a C.A.T. (Common Assessment Task) for school, these poems could be sent off to the “Young Writers” poetry competition and the ones which were good enough would be published in a book, called the “Poetry Trials”, which would eventually be available for us to buy. We were told that the best poems in the books would win awesome prizes: 3rd prize would win £250 for their school, 2nd prize would win £500 for their school, and 1st prize would win £1,000 for their school! Also, the top 5 poets chosen from the book would be asked to make a video for the poetry trials final. A public vote would then take place to decide the champion, who would then win an awesome ‘Apple’ prize bundle! This got us all so excited, and it really encouraged us to write the best poems we had ever...
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