Winchester Discovery Centre, Saturday 22nd March 10am – 4pm, £25 (£22.50 concessions) ‘Voice’ is something that poets can worry about a lot. Do you need one? If so, what is it? How can you find it? How do you know when you have found it? Will the one you find be any good?… And so on! This …
Winchester Discovery Centre, Saturday 28th September 10am – 4pm, £25 (£22.50 concessions) Autumn is just around the corner, so it’s time for new classes and courses. Poetry of the Spirit is my first offering this term. I have always thought of poetry as a spiritual art. For me, as for many others, the ultimate purpose …
In April, I went to the launch of 10 Days Creative Collisions, a 10-day interdisciplinary arts festival in Winchester this autumn. I went expecting to promote the festival’s Schools Engagement Project, of which I am a part; and to be fair that was mostly what I did. But what I didn’t expect was also to …
Last Saturday, a group of 15 intrepid poets braved the hottest day of the year so far to join me at the Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton, for my first workshop there. The reason for our gathering was the Museum’s ‘Impressions’ exhibition: works by 7 Hampshire-based artists, commissioned to celebrate the bicentenary of Pride and …
Making Impressions: poetry from art at the Jane Austen House Museum Read More »
So, following on from my last post, here is the rest of my Wessex Schools Litfest 2013 poetry tour. On Friday I was back on the Waterside, at Noadswood School. One of the good things about being in my second year as Hampshire Poet is revisiting places that first brought me in last year, as …
Finishing Wessex LitFest 2013: Noadswood and Romsey Schools Read More »
