See the rest of the launch here http://wordaid.blogspot.com/p/see-us-in-action.html

Soul Feathers

Soul Feathers is an anthology of poetry published by Indigo Dreams in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. It will be available in February 2011 and includes poems from Benjamin Zephaniah, Moniza Alvi, Seamus Heaney and Ruth Padel among others.

You can read more about Soul Feathers here http://www.indigodreams.co.uk/#/soul-feathers/4545520025

Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society has given Did I Tell You? a feature slot on its website: http://www.poetrybookshoponline.com/poetry_portal/poetry_for_children_in_need

Thanet Event Cancelled

Tomorrow's Did I Tell You? reading event in Broadstairs is cancelled as Maggie is stranded in Wales. We will reschedule in the New Year.

Launch event pics...

The 'Did I Tell You?' Launch Event...

was a magical evening full of amazing poetry. Over 130 people came along, including over 50 contributors, and we were treated to some wonderful readings, which really brought the poems alive. The readers were:

• Dorothy Fryd: Dusky
• Gary Studley: Mine
• Alison McNaught: Elephant
• Wendy French: From We Have a Little Sister and She Hath No Breasts (Song of Solomon)
• Michael Curtis: Christmas Concert
• Megan Watkins: Sharing a Shell
• Vanessa Gebbie: Her on the Corner
• Mark Holihan: It’s Rose
• Victoria-Anne Bulley: The Photograph
• Vicky Wilson: Migration
• Abegail Morley: Make Me Love You
• Nicky Gould: The Spoils of War
• Daphne Gloag: The Children’s Charity Concert: Matter and Antimatter
• Sue Rose: The Labour Room
• Patricia Debney: Half Shell for Molly
• Lorraine Kashdan-Lougher: My Daughter Taught Me Gravity
• Harriet Proudfoot: Bone Vibrations, Harvest
• Lyn White: Robert’s Blossom
• Jeremy Page: Seeing Cats
• Jo Field: Mirror Moons
• David Herd: And Some Might Call It Singing

'Did I Tell You?' in action!

Myra Schneider and Janice Fixter read their poems from Did I Tell You? at the Poets Anonymous Festival in October. Myra Schneider

Janice Fixter