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Joseph-coelho
Joseph Coelho

The Power of Poetry with the New Children’s Laureate

Joseph Coelho

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

1:00pm

1 hour

Sheldonian Theatre

£6 - £7

This event is aimed at school parties and is also open to individuals. Tickets are £6 per child and one free adult ticket is supplied with every ten children’s tickets. Additional adult tickets are £7. Suitable for years 4, 5 and 6. For school party bookings or for more information contact andrea@oxfordliteraryfestival.org Individual bookings can be made via the ‘book tickets’ link above.

Inspire your young poets with this rip-roaring adventure into the world of poems with poetry champion and Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.

Celebrating the power of poetry in all its forms, Coelho will share some of his special poetry prompts enabling every one of us to become a poet, and reminding us all of the joy that writing, reading and performing poetry can bring.

Coelho is the 2022-2024 Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate and a performance poet, children’s author, and playwright. His debut poetry collection, Werewolf Club Rules, was the 2015 winner of the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award, and has been followed by more critically acclaimed poetry books and picture books. He has also written plays for the Polka Theatre, the Lyric, Hammersmith, and the Unicorn Theatre. Coelho has been a guest poet in Cbeebies’ Rhyme Rocket and features in the BBC Teach ‘Understanding Poetry’ online series.

 

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The Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Festival literary heritage partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Jim Mellon John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford United Football Club Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Oxford Brookes University OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders La Leccia Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society