‘‘Imagine! 2021 – Thought-Provoking Poetry’ collection

Congratulations to a number of the School’s Year Ten pupils who were recently informed of their success in having their poems published by the renowned “Young Writers’’ organisation.

The pupils’ achievement comes after they entered the ‘‘Imagine!’ Amazing Dreams’ Poetry Competition – open to schools across the UK - last summer term, with their work subsequently being chosen to feature in the recently published ‘‘Imagine! 2021 – Thought-Provoking Poetry’ collection.

In total, the work of nine Grosvenor pupils was selected for publication, namely: Ben Adell, with his poem ‘Imagine If You Knew Everything’; Jake Adell (‘What If’); Matthew Booth (‘Imagine If’); Naomi Campbell (‘Programmed’); Katie Chan (‘A Drifting, Deviant Crow of the Earth’); Oliver Gray (‘The End of the World’); Rachel Lamont (‘My Sympathies, To Death’); Jake McCaughey (‘Imagine the World Was at Peace’) and Matthew Myles (‘Your One Wish’).

The achievements of the above pupils is made all the more impressive by the fact that Grosvenor is one of only two Schools from Northern Ireland to have work featured within the anthology.

Furthermore, the success of this year’s cohort follows that of Nadia Kukie, Katie Reid, Liberty Molloy and Megan Ashfield, whose creative writing pieces were selected to feature in the Young Writers’ ‘SOS Sages: Missing – UK Tales’ anthology, published in October 2020.

Celebrating the department’s most recent success, Grosvenor’s Head of English and Literacy, Mrs Sian Davidson, commented: “The English department is absolutely delighted with the success of our young people who have had the courage to throw themselves into the literary spotlight. They should be rightly proud of the fact that they are now, officially, published poets! We hope they will continue to write for pleasure and look forward to reading more of their work in the future.”

Well done to each of the pupils who have now attained ‘published poet’ status – hopefully they are just the latest of many Grosvenor pupils who will achieve literary success in the near future.

A number of Grosvenor’s Year Ten pupils whose poems were recenrly selected for publication.