A fun and interactive poetry workshop for children.
Race a comet through outer space, bake an exceptionally weird cake, and pull up a chair at the Spy Café. This interactive workshop will feature lively poetry performance from poet Kate Wakeling, interspersed with lots of playful and unusual (and relaxed) opportunities to get writing.
You’ll be invited to compose a poem made only of questions (why not?), concoct a series of outlandish facts about yourself that nobody/everybody will believe, and consider eleven (very unexpected) uses for a garden pea…
This event is part of our 2024 Brontë Festival of Women's Writing. Find out more about the festival here.
Date: Sunday 22 September, 10am - 11am
Tickets: £7 (one ticket per child and one free accompanying adult)
Location: The Old School Room, Haworth
Suggested age: 8-11
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Kate Wakeling is a poet and musicologist who writes for both children and adults. Her collections for children include Moon Juice and Cloud Soup (The Emma Press) and A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop (Otter-Barry Books).
Kate’s work for children has won the CLiPPA, been nominated for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for The Week Junior book awards, and selected as Books of the Month in The Guardian, The Scotsman, and The Sunday Times.
In 2022 Kate was commissioned by the Poetry Society to write a poem to mark the 75th anniversary of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree. A pamphlet of Kate’s poetry for adults, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto.
(Photo credit: Sophie Davidson)