Last night, Putney’s budding poets performed some impressive pieces of work in the school’s annual Poetry Festival. Entries were judged by esteemed poet, Lavinia Greenlaw, author of 11 books of verse published by Faber and nominated for the T.S. Eliot, Forward, Whitbread and Costa prizes.

Enormous thanks to Ms Greenlaw for presenting the awards and for her invaluable feedback:

The awards went to:

Best performance Y7-9: Evie Ormerod,‘The Deer King’

Best performance Y10-13: Katie Ogden-Newton,‘Wolf’

Y7 runner up: Olivia Brown,‘Filtered’

Y7 winner: Mabel Young,‘Grieving for Grenfell’

Y8 runner up: Anoushka Guruparan,‘Mountain Water’

Y8 winner: Tabitha Stuart,‘Drifting to Discovery’

Y9 runner up: Isabella Chiarotti,‘What Happens’

Y9 winner: Eleanora Gallenzi Minervini,‘I am Mad’

Y10 runner up: Molly Reed,‘The Sunset’

Y10 winner: Sarisha Burt,‘She is a Ghost’

Y11 runner up: Yusra Dahri,‘Summer Snow’

Y11 winner: Lakshya Ravikumar,‘Girl’

Sixth form runner up: Madeleine Olver,‘Sanctuary’

Sixth form winner: Nana Ama Otuo,‘Cursed View’

In further creative writing news, poet Frances Leviston will be joining us from 14^th-16^thMarch. Frances has published two books of poetry with Picador and been nominated for the T.S. Eliot and Forward prizes. Frances will be reading some of her own work and hosting creative writing sessions with students from Years 9, 10& 12, as well as running five masterclass poetry workshops with groups of students from Y10-13.