Blooming Poetry workshop

On Saturday, the poet Moira Andrew and I ran a workshop for children in the Vinery at Trebah.

It was a lovely group, and we had a lot of fun. Moira has worked with children a great deal - and indeed written several brilliant books about how to inspire them to write.

Within a couple of minutes she had their imaginations sparking, and over the morning they all created beautiful tree poems (and drawings) as well as riddle poems about small objects they'd found on our forays out into the garden.

Being a lively bunch, the children were full of questions and observations about things they'd noticed. But for surprisingly long stretches they were amazingly quiet as they focused intensely on their writing. And the results were stunning - you can see a couple of the pieces they created below.

There's more about Moira and her books - for grown-ups as well as for children - at her website. I'm looking forward to doing more workshops with her at Trebah next year.

Tree poem by Clemmy

Tree poem by Iris