Monthly Archives: August, 2015
National 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, Optometrist, Bristol – my optometrist, actually, and a wonderful range of frames can be found in his shop! …
National 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 understanding within sight; a feather floating, slowly; it is needed in the night. In a field of swaying sunshine …
The 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 Foundation, the charity committed to widening poetry’s audience. I am one of the charity’s National Poetry Day Ambassadors. This year …
Clippa (CLPE) Poetry Award!
I received a wonderful invitation to go and see the announcement of the CLIPPA 2015 – the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award, on 16th July. This prestigious award is tragically the only one given to an author for a children’s poetry book, or an editor for a children’s anthology. The ceremony was held …
A Grand Appeal!
This year 70 Shaun the Sheep statues have appeared all around Bristol. The Shaun in the City Bristol trail is raising money for The Grand Appeal, The Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity. Each sheep has been painted by a different artist or celebrity, and they make quite a spectacle. We visited the Gromit trail a couple of …
Advance Poetry Retreat 2015
Every year, I have the enormous pleasure of getting together with a group of children’s poets. This was organised in the beginning by Roger Stevens, after talking to Brian Moses about how isolated children’s poets are. Roger decided to invite a group of children’s poets to a retreat so they could meet. That is how I found …
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