A workshop recently took place at The People’s Theatre in Newcastle in which my books Sticker Poems and Bastard poems were used, by the brilliant David Spittle, to lead teenagers to collage! It all seemed to go well, from the work attached.
It confirms my long held suspicion that the more playful experimental works are better for younger people to learn about poetry that the more formal or subjective, in the sense that aberrant humour and play, and the emphasis on this in method as well as subject, circumnavigate the boredom so associated with the medium. Or maybe not.