Camelot, Mythical Beasts and Riddles: workshop with Clare Pollard

Winchester Poetry Festival 2025

Camelot, Mythical Beasts and Riddles: workshop with Clare Pollard

For Winchester, home of the Round Table, we're offering a suitably Arthurian workshop for children 7–12yrs based on Clare Pollard’s middle-grade novel, The Untameables (Emma Press): a chance to write Anglo Saxon-style alliterative verse, create your own bestiary and puzzle over medieval riddle poems.

Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Clare Pollard’s most recent books are the children’s novel The Untameables and the adult novel The Modern Fairies. She has published fi ve collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, with her sixth, Lives of the Female Poets, forthcoming in 2025. Her poem Pollen was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is Winchester Poetry Festival’s current Artistic Director.

This event takes place at P&G Wells Bookshop

20min walk from Winchester Train Station

10min walk from Winchester Bus Station

Follow the signage in the shop :

P&G Wells Bookshop

11 College St,

Kingsgate St,

Winchester

SO23 9LZ

Suitable for: 7-12yrs

Duration: 1 hour

Format: in-person workshop for children

Access: Relaxed performance, venue is up a flight of stairs.

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