Competition-winning friendship poems open Latitude festival
The competition began for the 2024 festival as a collaboration with BBC Radio Suffolk, and was open to young people who lived or went to school in Suffolk.It expanded to cover three counties for this year's festival.Poems on the theme of friendship were judged by BBC presenters Sarah Lilley and Louise Hulland, along with poet Luke Wright and Latitude arts curator Kirsty Taylor.Winner Myles said he was "excited and proud" to read his piece to a large crowd in front of the stage, which floats on the lake at Henham Park, and on the bridge alongside.The two runners-up also performed their work.Zara, 11, from Gorleston, wrote What Can I Do? telling the story of her school friend moving away to Peterborough.She said: "I love writing and I hope to publish a book of my poems one day."Eleanor, 11, from Cromer, wrote Someone, a poem that explored how it felt to be without a special friend.After the performance she said the experience was "really fun" and she felt proud of her reading.
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