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Bring your words to life at the Poetry Platform…

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Become centre stage and find your voice whilst stepping up onto the Poetry Platform. Creatively explore imagination, reflections or observations. Confidently express words as they lift off the page.

Instructions

Step 1: 
Choose an activity or game from the menu below. Click the ‘Start’ button to begin.

Step 2:
Follow or use the guide above or below each activity, to aid imaginative inspiration.

Step 3: 
Use the ‘Back to Platform’ button to return to the activity menu.

rationale

William Wordsworth stated ‘Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’. Written or spoken word can aid emotional self expression, whilst helping to collate and contain thoughts and feelings through structure, form and imagination. Poetry, rap and other forms of creative expression can encourage ways to explore inner processes, offering opportunities to pause, reflect and understand or cathartic release, allowing words to flow out enabling articulation and ventilation.

"Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would’ve otherwise been voiceless."

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