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National Poetry Day
Poetry Postie awarded Arts Council award!
Thanks Literature Works, and thanks Arts Council England. Over the moon about this! Poetry Postie awarded Arts Council award!
read more.....Poetry Postie on her rounds
Thrilled to say that the Poetry Postie has been awarded a major Arts Council grant to deliver poetic inspiration to the Nation – and beyond! But before all the action starts I am on a writer’s retreat writing new poems … read more…..
How to build a shelf in yourself
1. Just keep a stillness in you Like the bubble of a spirit level When it’s found its straightness and the line can be drawn From one corner of your being to the other The shelf built For you … read more…..
T.S.Eliot & the Cartwheels
Between your fingertips and your pointed toes you hold your body like a smile. A happiness that you are able to place in the air, to dance with or to twirl upside down, hoping to find in that turning world … read more…..
The Poetree The Poetree is a copper tree on whose branches grow the most strange and wonderful objects imaginable. People are invited to pick something off the tree and be serenaded individually with a song , story or poem their … read more…..
Word M’art – Poems in a Tin Poems in a Tin first appeared on the shelves of the Co-Op supermarket for National Poetry Day. The idea was then developed for a commission to transform an empty shop into Word M’art … read more…..
Phone a Poem Dial up a song, story or poem and leave a piece of your own written work in the Poetry Directory. The Phone a Poem was showcased at Cheltenham Festival of Literature with a specially commissioned collaboration with … read more…..
The Object Project The Object Project invited members of the community to bring forward objects that were precious to them and that had a story to tell. These then inspired the creation of an interactive Cabinet of Curiosities and the … read more…..