What was the inspiration behind your piece?
My inspiration for my piece of work “The Man on the Side” came from my love of football. When asked in class by my teacher, Mr Taylor, to take part in the competition I was unsure on what to do. I then came up with the idea of trying to create a poem and wanted to link it in with football.
Why did you pick the form you did?
I decided to take the form of a poem, as I thought it would be the best way for me to express my thoughts on society nowadays within the sport of football. Also with the big issue of Respect within the game at the moment, I thought that I would try to include that in there too.
‘Why I Write’
As I started to work on this piece of work , all of my ideas sort of started to fit together and the more I worked on it, the more my ideas came across, and it seemed to all work out.
Advice to fellow young writers
Don’t be afraid to express yourself. Pick a topic that means something to you as this makes the piece of work easier to complete.
A piece of writing/poem/novel/article/
Today’s society helped to influence the ideas within my piece of writing. Just watching television, and reading about the topic of football highlighted some of the ideas I had for it. It then just all seemed to come together.
You can read Tom's Orwell Youth Prize winning poem, The Man on the Side, right here on Voice.
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