never knowingly without a pen
Popping in briefly to say I’ve had a happy but busy poetry week. I was in St Gregory’s all day Wednesday and most of Thursday (National Poetry Day) and I stayed for their Open Evening on Thursday so wasn’t home until nearly 10pm. I think that my school residency is going well, so far! I’m… Continue reading National Poetry Day at St Gregory’s #writerinschool
I enjoy browsing through poetry books on the look out for poems that I think will work well in a workshop. As I mentioned before, the theme for National Poetry Day this year is ‘Freedom’ so I’ve been looking for suitable poems to take into St Gregory’s Catholic College where I’m working as Writer in… Continue reading Poetry Workshop Ideas: The Long Holidays by Esther Morgan #writerinschool
I’m using this blog as a notebook to record my time working with students at St Gregory’s Catholic College, Bath, as Writer in Residence. I’ll use the tag ‘writer in school’ so you should be able to find my posts here by using that search term. It’s still early days in my residency, I’m now… Continue reading Beginning to write poetry with secondary school students #writerinschool
I’m going to be using this blog as a kind of diary and a place to keep notes about my work as a Writer in Residence at St Gregory’s Catholic College in Bath. I won’t use students’ real names or photographs and I won’t do or say anything which would put any young person at… Continue reading My first weeks as a Writer in Residence in a school #writerinschool
In 2017 – 2018 I had a lovely time working in a secondary school in Bath one day work, employed as a Writer in Residence. I used this blog as a notebook to document the workshops, so I thought I’d link to a few of the posts I wrote, for anyone who might find them… Continue reading DIY Poetry Writing Workshops
Josephine Corcoran 