National Poetry Day 2017 – Free the Poem Event, Exeter Library!

Liz Brownlee ♦ October 2, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

I had a finger operation a couple of weeks ago, so National Poetry Day/Week was a little quieter this year for me.

However I spent all day, on the day, retweeting National Poetry Day tweets from all and sundry – both as myself, @lizpoet, and on behalf of The Children’s Poetry Summit – @kidspoetsummit. Do follow if you are interested in children’s poetry, lots of information on there!

I also posted many poems on my alter-ego blog, PoetryRoundabout. Lots of children’s poetry info, poems, interviews with other poets, competitions etc. on there, too.

However, I did go to Exeter Literary Festival with Jan Dean (one of my fellow authors for Reaching the stars) to have a fun filled National Poetry Day event – Free a Poem, with the giant magnets.

Many poems were freed, both by children and adults.

Here are Jan and I (and Lola), working very hard while poets poet behind us…

With it in the offing, many poems had a hint of Halloween – I particularly liked this one, from Megan:

Some were even darker, but without a Halloween element:

Some people just wrote lines…

While others just hugged a word:

The poetry puzzle was as usual consistently popular with all ages:

Jan made little booklets with ‘Fly Free’ stamped on the front, for people to write their poem down, or sometimes Jan wrote it down, for them to take home.