Lines on the Map - Update

This project keeps steadily growing. New poems include John Williams' amazing account of what washes up on Runcorn Beach (did you know Runcorn had a beach?) as well as a few really interesting location-pieces by Joy Winkler, Cheshire's poet laureate in 2005, and some exciting song-texts from Graham Bellinger. Don't miss the fascinating collection from the children at Wimboldsley Primary school.

There are now about 30 places featured with more than 60 poems. Keep sending them in!

More about Fair Trade

Yesterday we had a writing workshop for children at Frodsham Arts Centre.
Vale Royal (a district of Cheshire) is setting up a Fair Trade garden at the Royal Horticultural Society show at Tatton Park. They invited me to come and do a reading in this location, and we came up with the idea of a banana writing workshop. The children from St Luke's RC Primary School wrote some amazing poems - vivid and alive - on the theme of Fair Trade. Then they wrote out a key line on a banana, and we took some pictures - a process which we will repeat at the RHS Show.

Recent Events
- SciBar, Knutsford. 3 April
- Judging Ottakar's Poetry Competition (Crewe) - Prize giving 20 April
- Vale Royal Children's competition for the Queen's 80th birthday. Tea party - 3 May
- Poem of the month. First Thursday, Heswall 4 May (I picked 'Poem' by Elizabeth Bishop)
- Thought for the Day on Radio Merseyside - 8-12 May
- Shavington High School Lunch Club. A 'Lines on the Map' workshop. 10 May
- Congleton Poems and Pints - 11 May
- Meeting with Manley Parish Council about forthcoming Manley Common writing event