PUPILS from Oxford Spires Academy will take part in a showcase event at Blackwell’s Bookshop.

Last year poets from the school in Glanville Road published their work in England: Poems from a School, guided by the school’s writer-in-residence Kate Clanchy, and are regularly featured on national TV and radio.

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On Thursday, July 18, at 4pm in the bookstore’s Norrington Room, pupils aged 11 to 18 will read their work.

The event is free to attend.