A BOY from Chorley has been plucked from more than 1,300 budding writers to have his poem composed, arranged and recorded by a classical tenor and composer, and included on a CD.

Matthew Wilson, 11, of Collingwood Road, is one of 15 winners who scooped the national Walking Oliver and Times Educational Supplement Poetry in Song Competition.

A musical version of his poem , Who am I?, which took him just 20 minutes to write during a literacy class at St Mary's RC Primary School, Hornchurch Drive, Chorley, will appear on a CD with the 14 other winners.

He said: "I dream a lot, so I decided to write about that. It only took me five minutes to decide.

"I was surprised and couldn't believe it when I found out I'd won and it'll be strange listening to it."

And Dad, Peter, could not be more proud. He said: "It's a really eerie poem and I couldn't believe that an 11-year-old had written it.

"I'm very proud of him and so is his mum who keeps calling him her little angel."

The CD is currently being produced by internationally-remowed musicians and composers, including Paul Austin Kelly, a singer/songwriter, lyric tenor and director of Walking Oliver who produce music for children. He was also a judge in the competition.

He said: "To me, this was one of the scariest entries we read.

"If you read it on one level it would seem the answer is a dream or maybe the writer's subconscious but on another level you could read it as a malevolent spirit that possesses the boy.

"I was very taken by that idea."

The new CD will be released in the autumn and will be on sale through schools and available on the Walking Oliver catalogue website at www.walkingoliver.com.