Nautical Threads: Concrete poetry workshop

Schools and arts award

Inspired by Corbyn Matthews Crow’s boat shaped poem, written specially for the Nautical Threads project, pupils at Green Park Primary School had a go at writing concrete poetry with Dan Simpson on 9 October 2013.

• “Simon (class teacher) was delighted and said … that Dan really inspired the children and they produced some lovely writing. They did some wonderful shape poems of castles and acrostics of Dover.“ (Chris Bryant)
• “Some great poetry written and created by the students!” (Dan Simpson)
• Dan Simpson really inspired the children to write. He got them excited about writing! (class teacher, Simon)

Children’s comments:

• It was really fun! (Harry)
• I liked the shape poems because they looked really funny. (Reece)
• The pomes were funny. I liked the silly ones! (Summer)

A selection of the lovely work resulting from the workshops is on show in Dover Library.

 

Photos by Kate Beaugié

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