ALL Saints School is cultivating a clutch of prize-winning poets.

Year 9 and 10 students at the Weymouth school have won prizes in a regional poetry competition.

Winner was 14-year-old Joanne Davis from Weymouth who won over the judges with her poem about wisdom.

Joanne said: "I've been interested in poetry since I was eight but I'd never entered a competition for it before.

"I wrote the poem and read it out to my parents who really liked it and said I should enter a competition with it.

"I was really surprised to have won because I didn't think it was that good!

"It's called Wisdom and is asking what wisdom is. It comes to the conclusion that it is many different things."

The competition was organised by Ottakers bookshop in Dorchester and after winning the local heat Joanne's entry will now go on to be judged in the national final.

Joanne's English teacher, Stella Williams, said: "I'm thrilled at Joanne's achievement and delighted to see her talent for creative writing.

"I wish her success in this and for the future."

Year 9 students Claire Wootton, Aislinn Beavis and Lauren Harris, all 13, were runners-up in the competition with their poems about a missing CD, an argument about going to town and winter.

Joanne and the runners-up each won a selection of poetry books.