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National Poetry Day 2016

Say it with a Poem! National Poetry Day this year is on October 6th. The theme is messages. In my role as National Poetry Day Ambassador, but also wildlife poet, I am asking people to send me message poems to an animal, or to the world. I am imagining poems to a declining habitat, pleas …

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National 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 ‘spotlight’, Slavka Liskova, reads Snow Geese Solstice by Susan Richardson. Thank you to Susan Richardson for use of this beautiful poem, …

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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 …

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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, Bristol, on the Saturday, 4th October. This is a free event. The theme for National Poetry Day 2014 is ‘Remember’ and …

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Poetry Event at Foyles, Bristol

Yes! To celebrate National Poetry Day (2nd October), and being a National Poetry Day Ambassador, I am holding a fun poetry event for ALL AGES at Foyles, 6, Quakers Friars, Cabot Circus, Bristol, on the Saturday, 4th October. The theme for National Poetry Day 2014 is ‘Remember’ and the event will be on the theme ‘Remember …

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