How A Poetry Workshop Can Benefit Your Students
It was National Poetry Day last week, and I was lucky enough to be invited to visit educational institutes across the Midlands, including two primary schools, and Newman University. I worked with students ranging in age from reception, right up to higher education, and the one thing I say to everyone I meet no matter […]
Writing Prompt: Sensory Imagery
We often find it easy to access imagery when our primary sense is sight, but I invite you to utilise all of your other senses to build a more immersive, and therefore convincing scene when you build a poem. When we do freewrites, we often do them in response to written stimuli, but try taking […]
Five Poems To Read In Honour Of Black History Month
This October is Black History Month here in the UK, so to celebrate we’ve collated just a small selection of poems from the minds of brilliant Black poets for you to read! The voices of the likes of Maya Angelou and Michael S. Harper are important in sharing and reclaiming Black History, and their use […]
What Does Commercial Copywriting Have To Do With Poetry?
You may have noticed that Fawn Press offers professional services such as commercial copywriting and editing services as well as our publishing endeavours – so why on Earth would a client come to a house of Poetry of all places, to find a copywriter? Well, just for a moment, let’s put aside the decade of […]
Prompt: List Poem
List poems are fun because they help the reader process the world in a familiar format. The repetition can really drive home a point, build up detail, lull the reader into a sense of rhythm, and then often in the end line, hits with a twist or a dramatic change in the tone of mood […]
Samuel Johnson’s 312th Birthday In Lichfield
To celebrate the birth of literary legend Samuel Johnson on Saturday 18th September, Lichfield held host to an array of events including a few members of the Lichfield Poets, who read a series of food inspired poems for the Edible England themed Heritage Weekend. The Poets gave an absolutely splendid performance, utilising the whole chorus […]
Image Descriptions: Why We Use Them & Why They’re Important
You may have seen across our Instagram, that at the end of our captions we include a short paragraph prefaced “image description” which then goes on to describe details of the picture we have just posted. We would like to answer any questions you may have about this process, and encourage everyone to do the […]
“Poetry In The Park” at Staffordshire’s Victoria Park
Fawn Press is proud to be from and operate within the “Create County” Staffordshire, and it was a special day on Saturday 11th September to be a part of the 110th Anniversary celebration of the park with poetry performances, music, and general joviality within the community. Staffordshire Poet Laureate Mel Woodend did a fabulous job […]
Prompt: “Air”
You might want to approach these as freewrite exercise, setting a 3-minute timer on your phone and exploring wherever internal monologue takes you, or you might take the prompts literally and focus a poem on each topic. -Your favourite song growing up -Wind-chimes on a porch -The wind is blowing leaves off of a tree […]
We Asked The Public” What Makes A Poem Dazzle?”
We opened up our social media platforms across Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to invite our followers and fellow members of the writing community to chat to us about what makes a poem dazzle for them particularly! By asking multiple spheres of the community what it is that makes them tick, we got some great responses […]