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Archive for June, 2005

A June Welcome ……

Before I welcome the poets new to us this month, a quick note in case you missed it : Site Outage Unfortunately we suffered a loss of service on Tuesday 28th June. Our Host providers are moving offices and servers – the upshot of this will be a more resilient service, however, the downside is […]

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1945 Football Poetry Workshops in London June 2005 !

1945 Football Poetry Workshops London June 2005 with Crispin Thomas (Football Poets) & Peter Daniel The Football Poets have undertaken recent workshops in Hull, Bradford, Stroud, Liverpool (Everton Study Centre), London(Libraries & Chelsea FC), Charlton Athletic,Stoke,Ascot, and even Brockworth ! For information on Football Poetry Workshops contact Crispin Thomas on crispin@ctmuk.freeserve.co.uk or editors@footballpoets.org Children’s Football […]

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We are august even though it isn’t August

We are delighted to say that we have been included in the glossy Citizenship Brochure given to delegates at the recent conference at Old Trafford; we are on the same page as the DfES; OFSTED; QCA; the Holocaust Educational Trust; the Institute of Race Relations; the Refugee Council; the Association for Citizenship Teaching etc., etc.. […]

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June is now Football Poets Haiku Fortnight. + Children’s Football Poetry Workshops

Hi All 1. JUNE IS NOW FOOTBALL POETS HAIKU FORTNIGHT .! 2. CHILDREN’S FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS * For examples of work in Children’s Football Poetry Workshops … please scroll down to 2. (follows the Haiku section) The Footbal Poets have undertaken recent workshops in Hull, Bradford, Stroud, Liverpool (Everton Study Centre), London(Libraries & Chelsea FC), […]

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Refugee Week – Poets, Teachers, Students, Basil and the Bard.

Refugee Week runs from June 20th to June 26th. You can find links and lesson plans on www.irespect.net (for lesson plans on that site, go to, unsurprisingly, “lesson plans” and then click on “Untold Stories”). We also hope some poets might contribute some new material on this theme; we have some from previous years – […]

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Fame

Where the shady, sequestered sluice gate rots, O’ergrown and canopied by all the years, There grew some forgotten forget-me-nots, Bespattered by the old mill race’s tears, And there I saw my football autograph book, Writ in the swirling waters of the weir. It’s a magical walk into Stroud over the meadow and over the river. […]

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/news/2005/06/