The winners of Nexus\u2019 National Pottery Day competition have gone on display at Longbenton station on the Tyne and Wear Metro. One winner and three runners-up are now on display at the station which has more than one million passengers travel through it every year.<\/p>\n
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The competition was launched last October and asked people to submit entries on the theme of \u201chome\u201d. A judging panel containing Nexus staff and local poets Anna Woodford and John Challis studied 182 entries of which four were deemed worthy of going on display.<\/p>\n
The winning poem was written by Jenny Carter from Newcastle, with a poem entitled \u201cSanddancer\u201d. She commented: \u201cThis was a lovely opportunity, and I was shocked when I found out I won. It\u2019s so nice to see my poem up at the station. All my poetry is about my family, my mam is from South Shields and she was the inspiration behind this one, she cried when I told her about it!\u201d<\/p>\n
The runners-up were Susan Shepherd, from the Scottish borders, Helen Kay, from Cheshire and Jane Burn, from Consett. Jenny won \u00a3100 in Waterstones vouchers and membership of the Poetry Book Society with the runners-up receiving \u00a350 Waterstones vouchers each.<\/p>\n
Huw Lewis, Nexus Customer Services Director, said: \u201cMetro has a long history of displaying art on the network. Placing art and poetry in public places like train stations, where people don\u2019t expect to see it, is a great way of introducing it to the public. We\u2019ve seen a steady growth in interest in the poetry station at Longbenton since we began this project two years\u2019 ago, and I\u2019ll be fascinated to see how the project develops in the next few years. The standard of poems has been exceptional, and I hope our customers enjoy reading them as much as I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
The poems will remain on display until the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The winners of Nexus\u2019 National Pottery Day competition have gone on display at Longbenton station on the Tyne and Wear Metro. One winner and three runners-up are now on display at the station which has more than one million passengers … Continue reading