Category: By our members
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A rose-tinted window
As part of our involvement in the Storylines project, we recently took a Poetry Playspace out of our usual setting and on to a train… Lead artist Carmen Marcus provided us all with beautifully planned and presented workbooks, crammed with amazing writing exercises timed to coincide with every station stop from Middlesbrough to Bishop Aukland,…
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Getting in character(s) for Tall Ships
In just over a week from now, the docks and marinas of Hartlepool will be a forest of masts and rigging, as the magnificent Tall Ships race comes to Teesside – and we’ll be there, performing poetry in the personae of historic Hartlepool women! Sarah Crutwell is your host Fish Annie, who is joined on…
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Guisborough Folklore – A Tale Of Lost Gold
We’re delighted to share another poem from our Creative Writing Walks
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Open-to-all writing walks inspire an Ode to Skelton
Our community creative writing walks in Redcar-Cleveland got off to a brilliant start last weekend with a theme of ‘People and Place’. Walkers were encouraged to sniff out facts about local legends in Skelton, Guisborough, and Ormesby Hall, and turn them into a ‘clerihew’ – a four-line mini-poem that tells (or makes up!) a biography.…
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Poetry Every Day
A week has passed since the festivities of National Poetry Day, when social media feeds and schoolrooms and libraries across the country become feverish with verse! We’d like to showcase some words posted for NPD by our sister Patience Ezinwoke, reflecting on the place of poetry in her life…
Tees Women Poets 