It’s #NationalPoetryDay!
Warwickshire Libraries loves poetry year round, but today is obviously a special day where we get to make a big noise about just how passionate we are about the written and spoken word.
On the day itself, we have a very special event happening at Stratford Library. Join Warwickshire Poetry Voices for a FREE evening of British Sign Language poetry performed by actors and poets from the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing communities. Tickets are limited, and can be booked here.
Library staff member, and poet Andrew Button has written a poem to mark the day:
National Pottery Day
Today is the day
when you take your
clay of words
and shape something
unique and exquisite.
It will take many turnings
of your creative wheel
to perfect the perfect poem.
One that you are content with;
that will catch the ear.
Like a new child,
it will be fresh
and come out crying
to be heard.
Everybody will want to listen.
Nobody will care about
the spelling mistake
in the title.
They’ll only be concentrating
on what you are saying.
Andrew Button
Another colleague inspired to write is poet and artist in residence at Nuneaton Library Mary Courtney.
Freedom
No longer a knot
No longer slave to the neck
Long lost tongue is found
Mary Courtney
Over the next couple of months Mary is hosting a variety of workshops in different libraries as part of the ‘Through the Wordrobe’ project. A wordrobe is a transformed wardrobe where clothes speak and words and poems are invented!
Happy #NationalPoetryDay from all at Warwickshire Libraries.
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