Poetry Event at Foyles, Bristol
If you didn’t know it already, to celebrate National Poetry Day and being a National Poetry Day Ambassador, I am holding a fun poetry event for ALL AGES at: Foyles, 6, Quakers Friars, Cabot Circus,...
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As you may (or may not!) know, I am a poetry Ambassador, appointed by The Forward Arts Foundation. The theme for this year’s National Poetry Day is Light which I’m sure will ‘spark’ many a beautiful...
View ArticleThe Light of National Poetry Day 2015!
Yes! It’s that time of year again – the run up to the amazingly stupendous and exciting National Poetry Day, the ‘annual mass celebration of poetry and all things poetical’, to quote the Forward Arts...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day Poem
In the run up to National Poetry Day, I will be posting some poems about its theme, Light! . Enlightenment . This word is in a dancer’s spring; paper aeroplanes in flight; water spraying rainbows; an...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day Film, Light and Moths
Every Monday and Thursday until National Poetry Day I will be posting a new film of a person whose way of life or job is connected with light reading a poem about light. Today’s reader is Amar Shar,...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day Film, Bright Spark
Today it’s time for the third film in the series of poems about light for National Poetry Day, read by people whose ways of life or jobs are connected to light. This poem is written by Michaela Morgan,...
View ArticleTWO National Poetry Day Films!
Another two poems in the series leading up to National Poetry Day on October 8th. The first film is one of our people whose way of life or job is connected to light reading a poem about light. Bob...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day Film, Snow Geese Solstice
Film six in the series of National Poetry Day films made by Peter Brownlee and me. People whose ways of life or jobs are connected with light read poems incorporating light – today, an actress in the...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day Films, Battling Fire
Film number SEVEN in the series of National Poetry Day films where people whose ways of life or jobs are connected with light read poems incorporating light. Today’s poem is a rather exciting – Paul...
View ArticleLight Poems on Bunting Event!
Light poems read by people with light in their lives is not my only project this National Poetry Day! On October 10th I’ll be at Waterstones, The Galleries, Bristol, with my GIGANTIC magnetic poetry...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day Films, Supernova
Film number eight today in the series of National Poetry Day films where people whose ways of life or jobs are connected with light read poems incorporating light. When I was researching people whose...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Lightship
One of the obvious places to film a person whose job is connected to light was at a lighthouse. I knew there wasn’t one of those around – but when I mentioned this on Facebook, amazingly, I was told by...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Carry Me Away
Film number 10 in the series for National Poetry Day! Where to go to find an old-fashioned projector and a modern-day projectionist? The cultural cinema (and digital creativity centre) Watershed,...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Angels
Film number 11 for National Poetry Day! Researching churches to find one that might have a Priest or Vicar that would read a poem for us, I came across the website for the beautiful, ancient church in...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Diwali
National Poetry Day is only one week away! This is film number 12 in my series where people whose ways of life or jobs contain light, read poems incorporating light. Hindu people all over the world...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, I Wasn’t Me Tonight
This is the start of National Poetry Day week, and to celebrate, here is a poem for Sunday! There will be a poem with light in every day this week read by people whose jobs are connected with light....
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Dazzle Dance!
We have a Dazzle Dance for today, as this is the start of National Poetry Day week! There will be a poem film a day this week until Thursday, NPD! As I was researching people whose jobs contained light...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day at Waterstone’s Bristol!
Don’t forget that on National Poetry Day, Thursday 8th of October, from lunchtime, and on Saturday 10th October, 10am – 4pm, I will be at Waterstone’s bookshop, The Galleries, Broadmead, waiting to see...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Nightingale.
Only two days to go until National Poetry Day!!! Poem number 14, in this series of poems incorporating light, read by people whose ways of life or jobs are connected with light, is written by me. It is...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day, Six Facts About Light
Today is the Eve of National Poetry Day! Here is the penultimate poem – this is a special extra – a ‘mash’ of children in Bristol on the 8th and 9th of August reading Rachel Rooney‘s poem, Six Facts...
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