Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015 - read the winning poems

On Poetry Day, savour the 15 glorious winning entries from this year’s Foyle Young Poets competition and see if you can spot the famous poets of the future

Magnus Dixon, one of the 15 overall winners of the Foyle Young Poets. 

The top 15 winners are invited to attend a week’s residential creative writing course at a prestigious Arvon centre or receive a poet residency in their school. Photograph: The Poetry Society

Thursday 8 October 2015 The Guardian

Every year, 15 young people across the country are selected as top winners of the Foyle Young Poets competition. Judged by esteemed poets Liz Berry and Michael Symmons Roberts, their work is selected from thousands of entries from all over the world – with many winners going on to become established poets in their own right so take note of these names!

Altogether 100 winners are being celebrated today at London’s Royal Festival Hall and all their winning poems will be published in an anthology. You can read the 15 top poems here:

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