type-a-tweet at West Port Book Festival
GPS braved some particularly persistent Edinburgh rain to attend The West Port Book Festival Literary Twestival in the (very cosy) Tea Tree Tea Cafe, Bread Street. Innovative uses of microblogging were everywhere: you could tweet on a typewriter, lend your voice to a podcast of ‘Pass The Plot’ (‘the game of [...]
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Abergavenny is Poetryville. The town is filled with words. There’s poetry in the air. I know this because I’ve just been there on the GPS map.
What an enchanting visit it was. The Year 6 students of Ystruth Primary School have recently taken to the Abergavenny streets, collecting found words and phrases. They then arranged them [...]
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The next few months look exciting for Global Poetry System as literature organisations around the UK get involved in finding poems in their area through a series of workshops and events.
Southbank Centre has partnered with Apples and Snakes, Academi, Litfest, Wordquake, Verbal Arts Centre, Scottish Poetry Library, Dylan Thomas Centre and NALD to set up [...]
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