Young Kate’s An Award-Winning Poet

Sweet

here were 15,000 entries to this year’s Foyle Young Poets Of The Year, and, hey, of course there was a young Greystones genius in that final list.

Garnering a commendation from the judges, Kate O’Brien’s eight-line poem Before was seen as a “hugely impressive achievement” by the judges.

And rightly so.

With the full list of winners announced just yesterday, the Foyle Young Poets Of The Year has now been running for 22 years, and is open to writers between the ages of 11 and 17.

Worth pointing out that Kate is just 11. Which makes her celebrated poem all the more remarkable.

Congrats to Ms O’Brien, and her family. You can find out more about Greystones poetry by visiting the My Place wall gallery on Theatre Lane, and check out those poems here.