Emergency Poet was interviewed for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo! 

http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2014/07/02/53b42094268e3ed04c8b4580.html

 

 

 

 

‘The Minor Horrors of War’ 

Emergency Poet visited St Leonard’s Primary school in Bridgnorth on the 25th of June to take a Y4/5 class in groups of 6, to do a writing workshop as part of their work on The Great War.

 

The children looked at a book published in 1915 called The Minor Horrors of War which looks at the lice, fleas, rats and other creatures that shared the lives of the men in the trenches.  Then they wrote poems on postcards. Great day involving Freddy the rat and some wonderful writing and sharing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News of News!

24th June

Deborah was interviewed for last week’s Sunday Mercury

 

 

 

and also for Monday’s Metro … She wishes that she had washed her hair!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah was interviewed about the project on Beautiful Misbehaviour’s blog….

http://beautifulmisbehaviour.com/2014/04/15/emergency-poet/

Surgery at The Free Word Centre for Arvon

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February 2014

Off to an early start this year with 2 indoor surgeries….the first was my second visit to The Lanchester Library at Coventry University where I was able to administer poetry to both staff and students. Lovely to work with Cameron Moon again! The second involved Jim and I driving down to London in heavy rain and heavy traffic, (Tube strike) to The Free Word Centre in the City, for Arvon’s House of Words event  to launch their 2014 programme. We were very proud to be part of the event with Arvon tutors Stella Duffy, Sathnam Sanghera, Jean Sprackland and Daljit Nagra reading from their work.