Sara-Jane Arbury is a writer, performer and workshop facilitator. She has been a long-timer supporter of Shrewsbury Bookfest’s Book Award project.
To further help children examine and enjoy the shortlisted books, Sara-Jane has written a poem for each title in the Big Book Award project and performs them here:
Armistice Runner:
Eagle Warrior:
My Parents Cancelled My Birthday:
What’s That In Dog Years?
Malamander:
Writer, performer and workshop facilitator. Sara-Jane has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with organisations such as Arts Council England, BBC, Oxford University Press, NAWE, The Poetry Society, Apples & Snakes and Bloodaxe Books. She was Voices Off Director at Cheltenham Literature Festival for eleven years. Sara-Jane works with schools and is an outreach poet for Ledbury Poetry Festival. She has undertaken many residencies and commissions, including Writer-in-Residence for Herefordshire, Leopardstown Races for RTÉ, Bristol Galleries shopping mall and Oxford Bus Company. She has performed her poetry on television and radio, and at festivals such as Glastonbury, Hay-on-Wye, Port Eliot and Edinburgh. She devises bespoke events, interactive murder mysteries and touring poetry-theatre shows for adults and children, and has poems published in pamphlets and anthologies.
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