Bridport Juniors Harness Haiku!
Bridport’s junior youth club members enjoyed a lively and creative evening writing haiku with The Bank of Dreams & Nightmares. The session took place during the weekly meeting of the club at Bridport Youth & Community Centre, and was a huge success.
Young writers learned the principles of haiku and it’s strict syllable count, and crafted their three-line poems from word banks they created about the local area. They also dealt admirably with several angry phone calls on the Red Telephone from the Grumpy Bank Manager, who was soon cowed and wowed by their writing prowess as they shared their poems with him - well done to the young writers!
“My colleague’s son has been writing poems all evening after youth club when he got home and said now when I do my drawings I will write a poem about it. This is from a lad who has never written a poem in his life. Someone else asked why they cannot make literacy fun in school. So the imagination and creativity of the session really captured the juniors imagination plus the amazing telephone calls on the retro phone!!! a stroke of genius. Please please come back ”
Look out for selected haiku from this workshop during the Bridport Literary Festival, which runs from the 7th -13th November; they will be displayed in various venues in various forms in a special ‘Hidden Haiku’ project. More on that in a future post…