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Poetry – Rowan McCabe

Artform: Poetry
Website: rowanthepoet.com

Rowan McCabe is a poet and a professional waffler from Newcastle upon Tyne. Aware that poetry isn’t a proper job, he decided to create his own and became the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asks what is important to them. He then goes away and writes a poem about this, free of charge, before bringing it back and performing it on their doorstep. It’s sort of like the Avon lady… but with rhymes.

Rowan has over a decade’s worth of experience delivering workshops in schools and has run large-scale projects on behalf of Apples and Snakes, New Writing North, and Mind. As well as being a lot of fun, the sessions build on literacy, creative expression, and oracy skills. The sessions can be catered to a particular cohort, or to tie in with a subject on the school syllabus.

If you’d like to book Rowan for a workshop in your school or community group, please contact Joel at [email protected]

 

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