A poet has been published in a national writing magazine after writing about the Blitz.

Vince Horsman, 67, found his poem, entitled The Wore and Blitts in Peckham Rye, printed in Writing Magazine because of his use of dialect.

The poem is written in the voice of a five-year-old girl living through the bombings and is delivered in phonetic language.

Mr Horsman, who lives off Cressing Road in Braintree, said: "I'm pretty chuffed, they seem to be fire up by the idea of dialect poems.

"I wrote a letter to one of the people who writes for the magazine and happened to mention that.

"It's quirky, I'm a bit quirky, that's a bit me.

"It was based on the idea that children in the Blitz probably found what was going on completely baffling."

The poet has now been in to present the poem and run literacy sessions with Year 6 students at Notley Green School and Lyons Hall Primary School, where his granddaughter Olivia, seven, attends.

The youngster has herself been a finalist in the Essex Young Poet of the Year competition twice.

Mr Horsman said: "The poem in question is written in dialect about the London Blitz and sat well into Year 6's Second World War history lessons.

"The schools absolutely loved it, they really really enjoyed it.

"I was invited back to Notley Green to do some other workshops for Year 6, I did two last year and also two lessons on the Blitz.

"I want to make a difference and help improve their learning and I think the teachers appreciated it."