It’s National Poetry Day, and earlier in the week I ran some poetry workshops in two schools in Warwick – Westgate Primary and Newburgh Primary – as part of the Warwick Words Festival. They were two very special days and what made it more special for me was having my daughter Helen working with me. I think we made a great team, and some of the poems the children wrote during the course of the workshops were excellent. They showed such enthusiam for poetry and for the writing of poetry, such a joy in the creative use of language, that we both came away energised and optimistic too about the future of poetry. So thanks to Jane Perry of Warwick Words for organising that, and for the teachers whose own enthusiam helped the sessions go so well.
I wrote a few poems on the theme of Home especially for these sessions, and if you’d like to read them, there’re here. Home Poems Please do feel free to download and use them if you wish.
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