Want to try your hand at writing poetry for the youngest among us? Join us for this new workshop with acclaimed children’s poet Kate Wakeling to discover new approaches to writing funny, gentle, thoughtful, magical poems. Explore how you might play with form, voice and musicality, find imaginative new ways to write about the natural world, come up with your own playful manifesto and more. You’ll come away with a better understanding of what makes a great children’s poem, and some new routes into creating your own. Attended Kate’s workshop last year? Feel free to return for this session, which will be chock-full of brand-new material and prompts.

© Sophie Davidson

Kate Wakeling writes for both adults and children. She has published three collections of poetry for children: Moon Juice and Cloud Soup with The Emma Press, and A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop (for younger readers) with Otter-Barry Books. Kate’s work for children has won the CLiPPA prize, been nominated for the Carnegie Medal and featured as Book of the Month in the Guardian and the Scotsman. A pamphlet of Kate’s poetry for adults, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto and her work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes.

We’re able to offer 2 bursary tickets to this workshop for those facing financial difficulty. Please email info@poetrysociety.org.uk to request one of the places. No proof of financial difficulty is required.

This workshop takes place online on Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to you 24 hours in advance of the workshop. Suitable for all levels of writer. 18+ only.