Event items
Fickling Lecture: The power of poetry by Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho, poet and author
Date/Time: Tuesday 4 February 2025, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
|
All our events remain free and open to all, but pre-booking is required. Bookings for this lecture will open at 10.00am on 28 January. |
Chaired by Dr Lucy Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Childrens Literature
Poetry has been key in the speaker’s practice – from using it as a means to get reluctant readers and writers to engage with literacy, to forming the bedrock from which he ventured out into writing in all sorts of mediums – from non-fiction to picture books, middle-grade to young adult to plays: poetry is threaded throughout his work for children.
Biography
Joseph Coelho is a best-selling, multi-award winning children’s playwright and author of over 50 books. His The Boy Lost in The Maze was the winner of the 2024 Carnegie Medal for writing and has received international acclaim appearing on the White Raven Book list - Munich, The IBBY UK Honour Books List and awarded The Extraordinary Book of 2023 by The International Children's Literature Festival of Berlin. Joseph was the Waterstone's Children’s Laureate 2022 - 2024.
