The Door to Door Poet My Adventures Across England | 810.82 KB
Title: The Door to Door Poet
Author: Rowan McCabe
Category: Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Poetry
Language: English | 222 Pages | ISBN: 1785634348
Description:
Writing rhymes for strangers on any subject they choose – as featured on BBC Radio 4 Aware that poetry isn’ t a proper job, Rowan McCabe decided to turn it into one by becoming the world’ s first door-to-door poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asked what was important to them, then went away and wrote a poem about it, free of charge, which he brought back and performed on their doorstep. Ignoring the advice of friends and a local police officer, he took the project to the deprived Byker Wall estate in Newcastle upon Tyne. Nobody punched him in the face. Emboldened, he set out on a tour of England, knocking on the doors of Moss Side in Manchester, Jaywick in Essex, the remote island of Lundy and Buckingham Palace. The Door-to-Door Poet is his funny, uplifting account of that journey. Through a series of such encounters, McCabe shines a light on a range of English communities, as he explores what is important to us today. Written with the humour of Bill Bryson, plus a touch of…
Writing rhymes for strangers on any subject they choose – as featured on BBC Radio 4 Aware that poetry isn’ t a proper job, Rowan McCabe decided to turn it into one by becoming the world’ s first door-to-door poet. Knocking on strangers’ doors, he asked what was important to them, then went away and wrote a poem about it, free of charge, which he brought back and performed on their doorstep. Ignoring the advice of friends and a local police officer, he took the project to the deprived Byker Wall estate in Newcastle upon Tyne. Nobody punched him in the face. Emboldened, he set out on a tour of England, knocking on the doors of Moss Side in Manchester, Jaywick in Essex, the remote island of Lundy and Buckingham Palace. The Door-to-Door Poet is his funny, uplifting account of that journey. Through a series of such encounters, McCabe shines a light on a range of English communities, as he explores what is important to us today. Written with the humour of Bill Bryson, plus a touch of…
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