POETRY WORKSHOP
Many poems are autobiographical. We write about memories of events from time past, childhood thrills and traumas, our schooldays, holidays, playtime, families – but our reading patterns may remain an untapped resource. Favourite books can trigger fascinating poems, as poet Rhiannon Lewis shows in Teatime Is All The Time.
She describes how: ‘The Alice stories definitely encapsulate the wonder of childhood for me. I have loved them from the first reading, along with much of Lewis Carroll’s work. A love of Lewis Carroll and his vivid, fantastical imagination was the inspiration for this poem.’ Of course, she is not alone in her enthusiasm. This is a very popular book, which means that a poem based
