This gives a flavour of the competition entered by Churston Ferrers Grammar School

All students in Year 7 were encouraged to enter an internal poetry competition at Churston Ferrers Grammar School. Students submitted their entry by handing in a copy of their poem for the internal competition - judged by Dr Ben King the Head of Year 7 and his Assistant Mrs. Jacky Matthews and Mary Fallon.

Now in its eighth year, the theme for the 2009 Divine Poetry Competition is “if I owned a chocolate company” and asks entrants to get their creative (& chocolate) juices flowing in imagining what it would be like to own a chocolate company.

Divine and partner Christian Aid are asking aspiring poets to write a poem imagining how wonderful it would be to own their own chocolate company. They are asked to consider what sorts of delicious chocolate products they would make and sell, as well as thinking about how they would ensure the cocoa farmers received a fair deal. Alternatively entrants can think about what it would be like for cocoa farmers to own their own chocolate company (like Divine) and what this would mean for the lives of their families & communities.

Divine and Christian Aid are delighted to announce that Anthony Horowitz, author of the cult children's Alex Rider book series, will be leading the judging panel this year. Often sighted by the media as “the writer who gets boys reading”, Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider Series has sold millions of copies worldwide with the latest, Crocodile Teas, due out this autumn. Anthony won the prestigious British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year in 2006 and was named Author of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards in 2007.

He is delighted to be involved in the competition this year saying, “Poetry and chocolate go hand in hand, I would say, in that they both greatly enhance the overall quality of life. And fair trade should be uppermost in our minds. I am delighted to be involved in this competition and wish all the entrants every success”.