Category: Events and Ideas

Events and Ideas, Poetry in the Community, The Spellwright

Spells & Hexes, popular as ever

  Last weekend, I ran a Spellwright’s Stall for Ludlow Medieval Fayre, at which I provided Spells & Hexes to an astonishingly eager public. Lovely event! I wore a dubious medieval costume (blanket, kilt pin and big hat) and never looked up for four hours – except once to quell a squabble in the queue about whose turn it was. People of all ages told me … Continue reading Spells & Hexes, popular as ever

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Events and Ideas, Poet in School, Poetry in the Community, Workshops

‘Around the Crow the weather’

It rained on Welshpool Poetry Festival, but didn’t dampen this great little celebration of words in Mid Wales.  I read with Gillian Clarke on the final evening, and am now wallowing in the delights of her new Picador Selected Poems. But before that I ran a workshop for children.  Here’s a few pics and some very promising lines from a group of focused and inventive … Continue reading ‘Around the Crow the weather’

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