The Wise Words Festival has set up a Poet in Residence Scheme across Canterbury in collaboration with poet Alex Vellis.
Hosting a poet in residence brings significant benefits to an organisation – their love and understanding of language can support with marketing and promoting your activities; performance poets can offer workshops around building confidence and improving presentation skills within staff and events can draw in new customers.
The benefits for writers include a new platform for their work and the opportunity to meet and work with a group of people in a new environment whilst supported by mentoring from Wise Words. Although this is initially an unpaid opportunity, we are keen to work with poets to explore the many and varied ways this might support your poetic ambitions whatever they may be.
Poets will be mentored and supported by Wise Words.
If are a business or organisation in the Canterbury BID area, here’s how you can get involved.
