The Poetry of Joseph Coelho

15 Oct If all the world were paper video

Posted at 23:47h in Children's theatre, Childrens poetry, Creativity, Performances, Poetry, publications, Schools workshops, Uncategorised, Workshop ideas by Joseph Coelho

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Check out my latest poetry video and accompanying Key Stage 2 resource as developed by The Poetry Society. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/77003431]...

02 Oct Latest Poetry Video about the pains of Puberty

Posted at 12:04h in Childrens poetry, Creativity, On writing, Performances, Poetry, Schools workshops, Uncategorised, Workshop ideas by Joseph Coelho

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[vimeo http://vimeo.com/75914556]...

01 Oct Resources for running poetry sessions in the classroom

Posted at 23:59h in Childrens poetry, Creativity, On writing, Poetry, Schools workshops, Uncategorised by Joseph Coelho

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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...

26 Aug The language of recipes

Posted at 07:53h in Creativity, On writing, Poetry, Schools workshops, Uncategorised, Workshop ideas by Joseph Coelho

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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'...

03 Aug Creating Literacy interventions with actors at Discover Children’s Story Centre Summer School

Posted at 12:26h in Children's theatre, Childrens poetry, Creativity, On writing, Schools workshops, Uncategorised, Workshop ideas by Joseph Coelho

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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...

05 Jul Tree Child Trailer Week One

Posted at 22:32h in Children's theatre, Childrens poetry, Creativity, Performances, Plays, Poetry, Uncategorised by Joseph Coelho

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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...

04 Jul Celebrating Difference

Posted at 21:22h in Children's theatre, Childrens poetry, Creativity, On writing, Plays, Poetry, Schools workshops, Uncategorised, Workshop ideas by Joseph Coelho

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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...

04 Jul New Children’s Poetry Collection

Posted at 10:22h in Childrens poetry, Creativity, On writing, Poetry, publications, Schools workshops, Uncategorised by Joseph Coelho

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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...

18 May Poetry Judging

Posted at 12:56h in Childrens poetry, Creativity, On writing, Poetry, Schools workshops, Uncategorised, Workshop ideas by Joseph Coelho

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I spent the yesterday morning judging poetry at St Anne's church in Limehouse. On arrival at this magnificent building I was presented with the daunting task of reading through 130 poems from seven different year groups (reception all the way to year 6) in five...

04 Jan Creatively re-fuelled

Posted at 20:04h in Creativity, On writing, Photography, Uncategorised by Joseph Coelho

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When I was a wee boy I went on a photography course offered by the local youth centre - my memory is normally like a sieve and much of my school days are blurs, mainly around break and lunchtimes but this course I remember in...