Bernard Young Poet

Highcliffe Primary, Guisborough 31st October & 1st November

Poet Bernard Young — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:02:18 +0000

Thanks for making me welcome. I enjoyed my two day visit very much.

Day one started off in the hall with a performance to the whole school. Great joining in on Brilliant and Ref Rap kids. Loads of poems were written. Individual and group ones. And a few class ones (with added guitar) when I worked with Reception and Yr 1 & 2.

Great to start with Reception on the morning of day 2 and finish the day with a yr 6 session. There were poems about pirates, swimming, dancing, teachers, football (of course) and a lump in the throat one about a soldier going to war.

Days like these remind me why I love being a poet who visits schools.

24 October 2011 Family Fun Writing Workshop

janineturner — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:45:24 +0000

Join Bernard Young for a fun writing session at the The Quaker Tapestry Exhibition Centre & Cafe in Kendal, Cumbria. Bernard will give a short performance to get things going and then give you lots of ideas to help you write your own poems. Children and grown ups writing together! Poems, raps, serious, funny – whatever you like. No pressure. Just some fun with words. For more information and to book a place see: http://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/events/family-fun-writing-workshop/

Bernard Young

Poet Bernard Young — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:59:31 +0000

Bernard is a guitar playing poet and has been writing poems and ‘songs’ since his early teens i.e. for ages! These days it’s still what he loves to do, but now he does it for a living. So he considers himself to be a very lucky man indeed.

Performances have been given in a variety of settings (from prisons to pubs, leisure centres to libraries, as well as colleges, schools, playgroups and supermarkets!). He has performed at many literary festivals including Hull, Ilkley, Lancaster and the Young Readers Birmingham Festival.

His poems feature in numerous anthologies of poetry for young readers (including The Works, The Poetry Store, Wizard Poems, Pet Poems, Family Poems, Space Poems, Spectacular Schools, How To Survive School, The Secret Life of Pants!) and have been broadcast on local and national radio and on BBC’s The One Show.

For more information about Bernard see: http://bernardyoung.wordpress.com/about/