Children at the workshop

The poetry reading served two purposes.

Firstly to raise awareness for the campaign to set up a Friends of Levenshulme Station group.

Secondly it entertained a party of children from Alma Park Primary School who were joining the train at Levenshulme to go to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester for a poetry workshop.

As part of the lesson at the Bridgewater, the children were asked to complete a sentence. Here's a selection of their responses:

It was so quiet I could hear...

• the sun letting out his beams
• stars twinkling
• a monkey swimming in Levenshulme Pool
• the moon in the sky
• the blood floating in my veins
• someone open and close their eyelids
• the stars laughing

Richard Fair reading poems to children on the train