Winning words for North Yorkshire poets (From Gazette & Herald)

Winning words for North Yorkshire poets

8:23am Wednesday 19th October 2011 in News

TWO poets from York and North Yorkshire have triumphed in a prestigious national poetry competition.

Pat Borthwick, who lives near Hovingham, was the winner of the Keats-Shelly Prize for Poetry for her poem Lord Leighton Brings Arabia To Holland Park.

She is a a former writer in resident with City of York Libraries and has had three full-length collections of poetry published.

Third place went to Carole Bromley, who teaches creative writing at the University of York.

Her poem, Tom Makes His Mark, was inspired by an inscription in the East Window of York Minster and the first draft was written in the cathedral. Her first full-length poetry collection is published this month.

The annual competition is aimed at encouraging talented poets to write poem inspired by the Romantic movement and relevant to today. This year, the theme was glass. The winners received their awards at a ceremony in London chaired by novelist Penelope Lively.