- A love poem written in my specially made Send-a-Book-to-Mali mini-book. Written at Wenlock Poetry Festival, by Mark Niel.
What a weekend! The Send a Book t0 Mali stand was seen at two very special festivals this weekend; The Shrewsbury Children’s Bookfest and the Wenlock Poetry Festival.
A grand old time was spent running the Send a Book to Mali stall in St Alkmund’s Church in Shrewsbury where the Book Swap and free story telling were being held. It was lovely to meet my friend Andrew Fusek Peters as he was about to launch his exciting new novel Ravenwood – a thrilling adventure set in the tallest trees in the world. The story was snapped up by the publisher who discovered J.K. Rowling and is due to be released in 15 countries. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!
A special thanks to Jed and Co who’s enlightened Dads treated them to my handmade mini books, then allowed them to pose with the mini Send a Book to Mali banner.
Gratitude to Wenlock Poetry Festival for having me and giving Send a Book to Mali the opportunity to be seen in the same party along side two Poet Laureates and some of Britain’s best poets! This festival is small and beautiful!
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Thank you’s too, to all those this weekend who stopped and chatted, those who donated money and children’s books and those who such wrote lovely things inspired by the appeal.
Poet, Mark Neil wrote:
Love in different Lands.
I don’t speak your language
We live in different lands
These words are sent with love
Our way of joining hands
Remember you are not alone!
And from The Poetry Takeway, poet, J.Osborne wrote, and then delightfully and amusingly read aloud to me……
Timbutku.
There is a camel burdened with copies of George’s Marvelous Medicine The Twits. Revolting Rhymes. Tribes sit cross legged absorbed in Michael Rosen Poems.A thousand author’s ears are burning sensing their stories are being read out on the sand dunes of Timbuktu.
Meetings in the Middle of Somewhere 