laughter & tears
Poetry Project

Laughter & Tears was inspired by the experiences and work of poet and broadcaster, Michael Rosen, now Children’s Laureate. Together with John Foster and Paul Cookson they held poetry sessions in Bournemouth Library to encourage creative ideas from the young people about their life experiences, both happy & sad.   

Stourfield Junior School and Haymoor Middle School worked with artist Jeff Pigott on making these handcrafted poetry books.

“Poetry offers children another way to deal with reality”

Michael Rosen

Exhibition design - ArtSpark