Yesterday my group of home-educated kids came round and we wrote poems to woodlice. There was a lot of kindly louse handling, and not a few moments of losing them in the sofa or capturing them as they made for the safety of Under the Rug. We talked about their habits, their food, the length of their lives and the pleasing fact that a mother … Continue reading ‘How I trained my woodlouse’…
Originally posted on Southwater Reads:
Robert Harper from Shrewsbury Poetry Stanza Last Saturday was a wonderful day! Thank you the great staff at Southwater Library, and also West Midlands Readers’ Network. Southwater Readers’ Day involved sharp-witted teenagers writing a Doctor Who radio play with Birmingham-based writer William Gallagher; Shrewsbury Poetry Stanza came over for the occasion and performed at the foot of Southwater’s escalators, drawing… Continue reading Read in front of the fire,/ read out in the shed./ Read in bed.
JEAN ATKIN 