Our BBC Radio 4 Appeal to raise money for our arts mentoring scheme is live & we really need your support to reach our target!

The appeal is live until Sunday 14 April, so please listen in, share with your networks and donate if you can
🔗bbc.co.uk/appeal/radio4 #R4Appeal

'the House in the Alley has made a home in our hearts' ~ celebrating 1 year since publication, with this lovely review by 朱弘昱 Hongyu Jasmine Zhu for
WordsWithoutBorders ⬆️
Reda Gaudiamo Ikhda Degoul Kate Wakeling
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Don't miss this at Leeds Lieder - a unique & enthralling way to experience one of Schumann's greatest song cycles
leedslieder.org.uk/whats-on/lunch…

📢ANNOUNCEMENT!📢
To highlight the importance of poetry in children's developing literacy we have again partnered with Macmillan Children's Books to offer 10 schools a FREE place on our Teaching Poetry with Kate Wakeling course!

Find out more & apply here: ow.ly/tE9A50R1Wsf

Unlock the power of poetry in your classroom with our 1-day CPD course. Join the incredible Kate Wakeling for a day of innovative cross-curricular approaches to poetry, sparking creativity and deepening literacy skills.

Register: clpe.org.uk/training/cours…

‘Book workers…gathered in the rain outside the London Book Fair…to mourn and remember the 187 Palestinian writers, poets, journalists, and scholars killed by Israeli forces since October 7, and to demand a permanent ceasefire’

Book Workers for a Free Palestine #LBF2024
lithub.com/book-workers-f…

Today Kate Wakeling is coming to our school for workshops with the children and staff CPD. How lucky are we! Looking forward to reading, writing, performing and growing a love of poetry. Ridiculously excited!

Suffragette Penny (c.1913)
Defacing coins was a criminal act that could lead to a prison sentence. Using small change meant that the coin was more likely to remain in circulation for years. #WomensHistoryMonth

FREE
Kate Wakeling Thanks for ‘My Treasures’, a beautiful poem. There are free resources here Tes .Followers will notice some #openingdoors angles! Younger primary pupils may particularly like this. More links in the week.Crown House Publishing
tes.com/teaching-resou…

We are very proud to see Willow Dene School children's work on display at ASCL conference following our Poetry and Art day earlier this term and proud of The Compass Choir who sang up a storm 🎵 Kate Wakeling

Can an astrophysics paper have a figure to scale?

This one, «What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?» by Jakub Scholtz and James Unwin has one:

A 1:1 scale of a 5 Earth-mass back hole.

[paper: buff.ly/2Ir4m05]

How do you start to write poetry? Hear what #CLiPPA winning poet Kate Wakeling has to say: ow.ly/hoGO50QLEbX #WorldBookDay

I've just seen among all the other bad news for the arts in Birmingham that the council is closing 25 out of 36 libraries - genuine cultural vandalism. Libraries are one of the few community resources left in the UK: they offer incalculable support and value.

Join us on the Sunday evening at Southwell Minster for a powerful performance of Mozart's Requiem, alongside a special new 10th-anniversary commission for the Festival from composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad and poet Kate Wakeling.

Children in Gaza have been exposed to deeply distressing events, witnessing horrors that no child should.

The world cannot abandon them. We need a humanitarian ceasefire. Now.

KIDS OF NORWICH!

We're hosting the amazing Kate Wakeling whose gorgeous children's books are published by The Emma Press

Come and see her LIVE National Centre for Writing

22nd Feb | 2-3pm

nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/toastie…

‘This article is more than 24 years old’

Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed.

Today's announcement marks a dramatic escalation in this ongoing massacre.

There is no place that is safe in Gaza and no way for people to leave.
doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-now…

I had the best ever time being part of this last night. Reading poems alongside dance from the beautiful Pauline Mayers & music from the completely excellent Chris Ash Max Gittings - Global Woodwind Specialist Joley Cragg and Juliet Colyer. Thank you Lee Simpson and Improbable for brewing it up ❤️

📢 SPECIAL GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

This week, joining The Improbaband and previously announced guests Josie Lawrence, Niall Ashdown and Pauline Mayers are Preetha Narayanan David Roberts
and Kate Wakeling

Get your tickets: thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/improba………