I eat all manner of things, I once ate a fridge. As well as using your voice you can also use your body when performing poems. You can perform a poem sitting. My grandad’s chair was a big ...

Discovering and performing poetry is a great way to enrich a child's life. Poetry is relatable, fun, achievable and can open up new ways of understanding and expressing your own emotions and thoughts.

said she wouldn't have considered a career in the industry before the internet - partly due to the fact that she had never seen black women performing poems they had written. But then she ...

Contemporary poets offer hints to help the wary unlock the secrets of poetry and get them writing and performing their own slices of poetic art. The Nation's Favourite Poet Patrick Neate has the ...

Reading your own poems out loud to a room full of strangers might sound terrifying. Having done it a few times myself, I can confirm that it is. But with the number of poetry open mic nights in ...

He also encouraged those interested in writing and performing poetry to attend and participate in similar open-mic opportunities in the latter half of the Second Sunday events. Dekeersgieter said ...