Tag: Poet in Education

Poet in School, Workshops

‘I felt a pair of pointy smooth ears/ mittens of fur’

On Tuesday I woke up in a Docklands Travelodge then made my way on the DLR to Star Primary School in Newham for a fantastic day in Year 5 and 6. The kids were focused and lovely, just brimming with ideas.  We made whole class poems called ‘Keeping the Creature’.  The only rule was we could not name the creature! Three different classes created three … Continue reading ‘I felt a pair of pointy smooth ears/ mittens of fur’

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Events and Ideas, Poetry in the Community

Finding Treasure – gold, dust and detectorists

For knifed into the bronze, my troll-wife leads her horse down these same paths. All night her long hand bridles him with snakes to make him tame. her long eye is my old amulet she is the secret dark inside of barrows   I’m working with Peter Reavill, the Regional Field Officer of the PAS – Portable Antiquities Scheme, looking at ways of developing a … Continue reading Finding Treasure – gold, dust and detectorists

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