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The POEM FOR SUFFOLK blog charts the project since the first week of workshops in September 2014, sharing some of the best poems created during the sessions and the stories behind them.
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The Ofsted Inspector, The Blackberry Picker & Why the Hedgehog Knocked
Despite it being an Ofsted day, the session in Wilby Primary School was a real romp - the children were enthusiastic and imaginative and...
Doreen's Mornings, Summers and Nights
I closed the session at Dove Close Residental Home with a short, guided exercise about our memories, thoughts and stories about different...
Chair Aerobics and Rod Stewart
John is in his sixties and has dementia. He's a resident at Dove Close and I remembered him from my last visit and how he was a big Rod...
Waiting in the Playground for the Bell to Ring
It began to snow during the morning at Clare Community Primary School and it proved a big distraction and attracted a small crowd at the...
The Peacock Walking Along the Lane
Group poems can be a really sparky collaboration between the students, the workshop leader, the teacher and the teaching assistants. It's...
The Frozen Park by Ozzy
At the start of a week of winter workshops for Poem for Suffolk, I was keen to capture something of the seasons and the January weather...
The Rabbit and the Angel Cake
It's not about using flashy words - using simple and clear language you can capture something special about your life and where you live....
Dennis and the Soil
On a day when I wasn't really 'Poem for Suffolk-ing', I came across a man whose life was a poem. Although Suffolk was only a small part...
The Never Ending Day by Mollie
This year at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (my day job) the subject of the discussion is 'Poetry & Disobedience'. We were brainstorming...
The Me Poem by Max
You've got to like The Me Poem by Max from Stratford St Mary Primary. It's exactly that, completely Max, a boy poem. It's a modern...
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