STEPNEY WORDS 111 an anthology of East London schoolchildrens poetry

In May 1971, a young English teacher named Chris Searle, was sacked for publishing a book of his students' poems, 'Stepney Words'. A week later 800 school students came out on strike and marched through the City of London to Trafalgar Square. The 'Stepney Words' poems were reprinted in national newspapers and became famous. The poets were invited to read their poems at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Young Vic, at Poetry International and on radio and television.

In 2017 The Shoreditch contemporary art centre Rich Mix, celebrated its 10 year anniversary and partnered with England’s leading performance poetry organisation, Apples and Snakes to run a poetry project with schools in Tower Hamlets that resulted in ‘Stepney Words III’. Chris Searle together with poets; Caleb Femi, Maria Ferguson, Cecilia Knapp and Talia Randall led workshops with students in four East London schools to explore what has changed in Tower Hamlets since the 1970's and what hasn't. The book has a foreword by Chris Searle and is illustrated with 40 photographs by Ron McCormick, both of whom were involved in the original 1971 publications.

Also available in hardcover

Published by Communimedia, Newport Wales
Size 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
76 Pages
ISBN 9781366231178
Publish Date, 2017
Language English