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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…..