TEACHERS! We have room for a couple of classes at our amazing events with Horrible Histories Martin Brown AND Zoe Antoniades at our FREE Primary Schools Programme at #TwickenhamStadium on Monday 17 June. Make sure your class doesn't miss out! BOOK NOW barneskidslitfest.org/schools/

May's Jawdance line up is looking 👌

Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬 welcomes an astounding line up of:
Salena Godden
Chloë Clarke
Jeremiah Brown
+ we'll have our regular open mic opportunity too! 🎤

📅 Wed 15 May
🕖 7pm
📍Rich Mix
🔗 bit.ly/3U4Gt2h

#Jawdance #PoetryNight

Double-pipe.
Ceci n’est pas une flûte.

Just heard Kemi Badenoch say that Brits now go on holiday to Rwanda. Does anyone have the figures for British tourism to Rwanda?

Inspire your children with poetry!

Sign up to the CLiPPA shadowing scheme before 8th May to attend our exclusive to schools shortlist event!

clpe.org.uk/poetry/CLiPPA/…

Peter Lantos and his autobiographical story for children, The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die, is shortlisted for the The British Book Awards. Here on The Bookseller Nibbies podcast with Hannah MacInnes, he talks about his story.thebookseller.com/broadcast/podc…

🍰 Ghosting, caking and breadcrumbing: The #language of online dating
bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…
hosted by Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 with guest Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton
via BBC Radio 4

We are looking forward to having you with us but we know there are some issues for some people with tickets. Please email [email protected] as we cannot reply on social media to individual issues. Many thanks!

Joanna West 🐝 🌹 ✊🧶 🇵🇱 🦘 David Nicholls mary beard Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 James O'Brien We are responding to issues and emails as quickly as we can but because we had to move to new venues quickly we have had to make some compromises. Our apologies.

What’s On – Heath Robinson Museum heathrobinsonmuseum.org/whats-on/micha…

Hands up if you're passionate about hand hygiene!

Our lovely team are in our hospital's atrium today, talking to passer-bys about keeping your hands clean and how you can help to prevent the spread of infections.

Come drop by and say hi!

Great to see so many leaders at CLPE today! Bookings are now open for our September Literacy Leader Forums and CLPE School Members can book their place for free:
clpe.org.uk/training?searc…
#PowerOfReading

I had a wonderful school visit at Harris Academy Bermondsey with an assembly for all of Year 9, a workshop for 60 students and an interview conducted by four students, which will be available to the rest of the school. Thanks as always to Authors Aloud UK for arranging everything.

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Goldsmiths UCU So often my colleagues in tech discover they’ve been laid off when they go to log into Slack in the morning and find out their account has been deactivated.

There are often some grimly farcical side stories in mass sackings. For technical reasons, I don't have a university email address. This means that if Goldsmiths sack me (two out of four professors in my faculty have to go), I won't hear.
Goldsmiths UCU

On International Workers' Day we are reaching out to our students. Find out more about the marking and assessment boycott & how we can fight cuts at Goldsmiths' together. Join us for a student-staff solidarity meeting this Friday (3 May, 4pm, RHB Cinema) Goldsmiths SU

Performance poetry tip 2: you can express the rhythm of a poem in any part of your body or in all of it. It could be just your eyebrows, or fingers or how you sway your whole body. Try to make the rhythm of the words help the rhythm of your body, as if the words can push or pull.

Performance poetry tip for schools 3: remember that your voice is a musical instrument: it can go up and down, loud and soft, spikey (staccato), smooth and slide. It can make rhythms rather than tunes. In groups we can combine these, some doing rhythm, some bass, some melody.

Performance poetry tip for schools 4: when I do 'Bear Hunt' (see YouTube) notice I do big, I do small, I do mouth-rhythms, I use my arms and body for rhythm, I do faces, I go fast, I go slow. One or some or any of these you can use for any part of the poems you perform.