For all those interested in engaging young people with poetry - there are some amazing free resources with links to the curriculum up for grabs here...
Today I began work today with Pied Pipers Artistic Director Tina Williams on Robin's Winter Adventure - a wintertime play that will be touring autumn 2014. More news to follow but of course it will feature some poetry. For more info on Pied Piper's current...
The language of recipes is incredibly rich in verbs and nouns, ingredients are peppered, shaken, and pinched mixtures are whisked, blended and beaten, concoctions are steamed broiled and baked. This last week I've been running writing workshops @discover_story summer school. We're using 'The Unforgotten Coat'...
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It has been a truly inspiring 1st week for the Discover Children's Story Centre's (@discover_story) summer school. Inspired by a CP project I worked on years ago with John O'leary and Laura Frankland we decided to create a series of "character interventions" for...
Absolutely thrilled to be able to share this taster trailer of Tree Child. The show will be touring Leicester libraries from July more info and tickets can be found here...
So an update on the collection title. I tried out the shortlist on a group of year 5's i was working on today...
I had a fantastic time today discussing ways to raise and work with difficult issues as practitioners and teachers in schools. There were some great provocations from Yellow Earth, Kazzum Theatre, JW3 and myself all brought together by Vicky Ireland (Thousand Cranes) and Ben Buratta...
I am thrilled to share that I have my first children's poetry collection coming out with Janetta Otter-Barry books of Frances Lincoln next year. It's been a real pleasure collating and writing the poems for this collection and I can't wait to be holding a...