Poetry Workshops and Coal Anthology

Carmel Smickersgill, Tours & Activities Editor

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Poetry Workshops and Coal Anthology

16 March-22 June 2024

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Keith Pattison
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Join the National Coal Mining Museum for England for a series of poetry workshops. In collaboration with notable publishers, The Poetry Business, everyone and anyone will be encouraged to write poems around the theme of coal mining. Some of the poems will then be chosen to be part of the Coal Anthology, a collection set to be published in the Autumn.

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