Archive for April, 2012

Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2012

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Last week saw the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. I started off by going to see Domestic Cherry – so funny. It was Michael Scott and Hilda Sheechan in the personas of a Swidon Chav and a hyper kitch Housewife. The I headed out to dinner with one of the stewards and then onto Slak Bar to […]

Children’s Workshops

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

It is now the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and I am running children’s workshops. This all started with poetry dragons and has grown 🙂 So now I have a giant version of part of my Monster Writing game complete with bag to keep it in! And we have the Poetry Bees who live in the Story […]

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Last year saw the first ever Cheltenham Poetry Festival which as a family we very much enjoyed, I read out my Piaf Poem and we met loads of amazing poets and musicians. This year it is back – bigger and better! It runs from the 18th – 22nd of April and I even appear in […]

Poetry for the Win!

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Last weekend was not only full of lots of lovely poetry events but I found out that I have won a bronze medal in the Gloucestershire Creative Olympics for my song Windy Gloucestershire 🙂 So I shall be going off to a lovely looking event at the end of April. Then on Sunday I managed […]