Jonathan Humble

A Sofa Shared (after Larkin's An Arundel Tomb) #Poetry

“I put him to bed with paracetamol and Nurofen and I went in in the morning and he was dead - it was that quick.” Author and poet Michael Rosen remembers the sudden death of his late son Eddie to Meningitis C in 1999. #Newsnight

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If buildings could talk, this one is crying out to be reinstated as a bookshop. #Kendal #Cumbria

Lovely day in Kendal. Magpies have been busy this past fortnight. #Cumbria

Abolish OFSTED #AbolishOfsted 🙂👍

Teach poetry with ease across all key stages (3 March,16:45 - 17:30) Simple, enriching ways to bring more #poetry into your personal life & professional practice.This webinar will provide information on high quality, accessible resources. Free event! 🙌😊 englishassociation.ac.uk/teach-poetry-w…

Great video resource for those teaching poetry to children from the English Association @EnglishAssoc Big thank you to Rebecca Leek @RebeccaLeek_ for the plug (@TheDirigible @JonathanHumble) 😀👍 #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈 youtube.com/watch?v=UvDY5g…

More emails will be going out today and for the rest of the week. JH : )

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The DB continues to be available for kids,families&schools to access brilliant poems, but we are now taking a break over the rest of spring&summer to review/organise our next anthology. News will follow on the website (soon) with updates of progress and info for poets/artists.

Thank you to everyone who sent poems for our spring flight. The window has now closed. A lot arrived yesterday, so the next few days will be spent reading and replying to emails. #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈 dirigibleballoon.org

Had a super time @BACKendal listening to these guys last night. I believe they're playing at Hebden Bridge this Wednesday ... go and see them if you're able. They're very very good! #Folk #Music

Poetry Submissions Closing at midnight GMT March 14th

Children's Poem Of The Week: Dance Of The Stream Sprite by Jacqueline Shirtliff yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Childr…

Children's Poem Of The Week: Dance Of The Stream Sprite by Jacqueline Shirtliff #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon #YorkshireTimes yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Childr…

Delighted to be back on a @TheDirigible flight. Lots of good stuff on there, and all for free. Thanks to editor @JonathanHumble .dirigibleballoon.org

FYI The Dirigible Balloon is not associated/affiliated with any commercial literary agency. The only affiliation we have is with The Yorkshire Times @TheYorksTimes and Yorkshire Times Publishing. We NEVER share our poets contact details. Thank you. JH x

Where it all started yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/The-Di…

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