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Biographical note: Sundra Lawrence is a poet and literature activist. She is an experienced tutor and has performed her work nationally and internationally. Sundra is the founder and Director of Write Lines. Her work has been broadcast on BBC2 and radio and is published in numerous anthologies including the Los Angeles Review. Starchild (2003) is her first mini-collection.
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EAN13: 9781844714704
ISBN: 9781844714704
Author: Sundra Lawrence
Title: The Freedom of Paper and Ink
Series: Anthologies
Product class: BC
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCH
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Apr-08
Extent: 108pp
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 162 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability: NP
Price: GBP 5.99
Price: USD 14.95
Rights: World
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description/annotation: When a student was asked to comment on what he had learnt from the Write Lines project his response was ‘the freedom of paper and ink’ we have taken his bold statement as the title of this anthology. The fruits of our young writers’ efforts lie in this book. Between these pages you will find rich, thoughtful and funny poems that demand to be read and talked about. These poems are not for display purposes only. Read them aloud, share them with a friend, or have one with your breakfast each morning.
Main description: When a student was asked to comment on what he had learnt from the Write Lines project his response was ‘the freedom of paper and ink’ we have taken his bold statement as the title of this anthology. The fruits of our young writers’ efforts lie in this book. Between these pages you will find rich, thoughtful and funny poems that demand to be read and talked about. These poems are not for display purposes only. Read them aloud, share them with a friend, or have one with your breakfast each morning.
A 200-strong audience at the Elliott Hall Theatre, Harrow Arts Centre, last year, witnessed this freedom. Young writers from five schools in Harrow performed poems that they had spent two months developing under the guidance and inspiration of professional poets. The language, confidence, and issues from the performances were truly moving. Students who were shy or spoke English as a second or third language were up on stage performing their poems proudly along with students who had never thought of expressing themselves in school, let alone doing so through poetry. Write Lines showed them that through poetry they could communicate with the world and write about what is important to them.
Table of contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword
About Write Lines
Words From The Mayor
Nower Hill High School
Kaja Mett
Summer Night
Soldiers
Music?
Philip Daniel
Will it Last
Fear
Chiedu Nwagagbo
Heard
Violence
Feel it in the Air
Krishna Patel
My Parents
Traffic Life
Heena Patel
The Dark
Bentley Wood High School
Something to Say (Part One)
Something to Say (Part Two)
Sophya Polevaya
Days
Chloe Jarret
Dear Teddy
Mohini Siyani
Do This, Do That
Zoe Beattie
In the Middle
Meesha Patel
My Poem
Umaymah Aduli
She Wins: I’m Awake
Hajin Shekany
The Dreaded Walk to School
Kathryn Lewis
Writing Her Diary
Canons High School
Komal Rana
Chocolate
Aisha Halling
Do You Remember?
Vibakar Srikandakumar
My Life (Not Everything!)
Anand Kotecha
About Me
Waleed Tariq
Life
Sacred Heart Language College
Lisa Egan
Remembering Him
Details
Angela Callinan
Wondering Why
Naivety
Chanel Viegas
Broken Threads
My Great is Gone!
Courtney McGowan
Free Falling
A Mother’s Love
Emma Mohan
A Desperate Plea
Gone
Rebecca Moses
Inside a Criminal’s Mind
Noises
Ony Anukem
Me Grandmother Sayings
Maybe
Weald Middle School
Hajera Assadullah
Our Journeys
Mohnish Jitesh
Our Journeys
Hannah Twardowski
Our Journeys
Keval Shah
Our Journeys
Ratheesan Selvaratnam
Our Journeys
Samah Khamis
The Red Dress
What People Do
Phali Wakadima
Last Fight
Shequan A. Cain
Anson Primary
Somewhere: A Group Poem
The Poets
Dan Cockrill
‘When my world was turned . . .’
Jacob Sam La Rose
How to Be a Basketball
Malika Booker
The Fountain – A Monument
Miriam Nash
Morning Milking
Nick Makoha
Pelican Estate
Roger Robinson
No Words
Sundra Lawrence
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Excerpt from book:
Foreword
When a student was asked to comment on what he had learnt from the Write Lines project his response was ‘the freedom of paper and ink’ we have taken his bold statement as the title of this anthology.
A 200-strong audience at the Elliott Hall Theatre, Harrow Arts Centre, last year, witnessed this freedom. Young writers from five schools in Harrow performed poems that they had spent two months developing under the guidance and inspiration of professional poets. The language, confidence, and issues from the performances were truly moving. Students who were shy or spoke English as a second or third language were up on stage performing their poems proudly along with students who had never thought of expressing themselves in school, let alone doing so through poetry. Write Lines showed them that through poetry they could communicate with the world and write about what is important to them.
We followed our first ever Write Lines project in 2006 with a bigger and braver project in 2007.
We worked with more schools, extended the poetry residencies, hosted the performance showcase in a bigger venue. We also arranged for journalism workshops, run by our media partner the Harrow Observer, which gave students a wider understanding of working in the creative industries. We teamed up with radio stations London Link and Desi Radio who, in turn, have produced a CD. Moreover, leading poetry publisher, Salt Publishing have produced this anthology?!
But we are not going to stop there. We will continue to help, support and bring the power of poetry to the lives of young people, networking them into new creative worlds.
The fruits of our young writers’ efforts lie in this book. Between these pages you will find rich, thoughtful and funny poems that demand to be read and talked about. These poems are not for display purposes only. Read them aloud, share them with a friend, or have one with your breakfast each morning.
Sundra Lawrence
Founder and Director
February 2008
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