Tag: Poetry

Universal Credit – a poem

Our Empowerment Programme Officer Ben Pearson wrote this poem as part of a workshop run by Church Action on Poverty’s poet in digital residence Matt Sowerby.

Signs – a poem

Matt Sowerby shared this poem in one of his workshops as Church Action on Poverty’s poet in digital residence.

Voice: a poem

Penny Walters wrote this poem as part of a poetry workshop run by our poet in digital residence Matt Sowerby.

Poetry and poverty 4: ‘Theresa may…’

During 2016, through our Poverty Media programme , many people got the chance to work with professional authors to write about their own experiences of poverty and exclusion. Some of this work was performed as Powerlines at the Manchester Literature