I am seeking poems from young people in care and care leavers between the ages of 12 to 25. The poems will be part of an exciting galleryexhibition called Salander taking place at The Roundhouse. Read more [...]
If Gil Scott-Heron is "The Godfather of rap" then meet the young fathers - The Last Poets. On Wednesday they perform at Southbank Centre. A few months ago we hung out in Harlem. A few years Read more [...]
The adoptive mother describes the child whom they'd taken some years earlier from Ethiopia as having grown into a person with a wild look in her eyes. It was like seeing an exorcist. This is immediately Read more [...]
Today I introduced children's authors onto stage at Southbankcentre's Imagine Festival for Letterbox Live . Letterbox Live celebrates The Letterbox Club for which I am patron. Letterbox Club gets books Read more [...]
So I am on the plane returning to england from Pakistan. I'm sat next to a charming woman and we get along like a house on fire. Turns out she runs Lollip and laddu who provide videography and photography Read more [...]
It’s my final reading at The Karachi Literature Festival in The Sunflower Room again. This one was for young people but the audience was wonderfully mixed. A good literature festival curates new Read more [...]
Part of the fun of Literature Festivals is meeting old friends and aquaintances. I've known Qaisra Shaharaz for some thirty years. But since meeting her when I was a literature development worker in Read more [...]
The Brtish Council Karachi in collaboration with River Oaks Academy brought together a selection of students and teachers from ten Karachi schools in a venue called PIACC. It’s my first event of Read more [...]
I am flying to Karachi in a few hours, to Karachi Literature Festival . About a month ago I visited Islamabad and the vice chancellor of Fatima Jinnah University gave me a plaque. Read more [...]
For young people who are in or from care a free creative holiday at Arvon in Devon. TEN PLACES LEFT. Read on then please share this post. If you are between the ages of 16 and 24 a careleaver Read more [...]