A CHURCH'S annual flower festival had a literary theme this year, with participants challenged to design arrangements based on their favourite poems.

Each year, Bingley Methodist Church holds an annual flower show, with the floral displays given a particular theme.

This year, the team of organisers gave people the brief of 'poetic inspirations'.

The Rev Rosemary Nash said: "The idea was people could choose a poem that meant something to them and interpret it through flowers."

She said the finished designs had been based on poems as diverse as Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and John Masefield's Sea Fever, famous for its opening line, 'I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky.'

She said: "There's a whole range of poems, including some children's nursery rhymes."

The festival opens for its last day tomorrow, from 10am to 4pm.

Rev Nash said the event provided a "tremendous boost to church funds".