Poets in School
ABOUT US

James Armstrong

Now a professional writer and musician, James was a teacher of French and Drama for 21 years. He has also worked as a Creative Writing Tutor in Adult Education.

He was co-founder of The Maidstone Poets with well-known children's poet and Stuckist artist Charles Thomson and has been performing his poetry and songs at literary venues and schools across the country for the last 15 years.

As a singer/songwriter he has performed on BBC, ITV and CBS television. He plays a variety of musical instruments including guitar, melodeon, harmonica, banjo, keyboards and percussion.

Geraldine Aldridge

Geraldine has spent years looking for a job she could do dressed as a dragon or witch without being sent home. Her favourite pastime is writing poems in the middle of the night.

She is a published poet and sings and plays the bodhran and penny whistle in a folk group. She is also a published illustrator, storyteller, artist and musician and has spent many years working creatively with children and adults in playgroups and craft workshops. She is currently writing a series of children's novels.

Festivals
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Brighton Festival, 2000
Canterbury Festival, 2000
Vote Stuckist, 2001

Publications
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Spiders on Toast ( Victoria Press, 1999)
Only a Game and other football poems (Dreamcatcher Press, 2000)
Wordplay (Dreamcatcher Press, 2000)

Doctor Snot (Dreamcatcher Press 2005)
In the Dark Jungle (Dreamcatcher Press 2005)

Poems in Anthologies

Snowflakes and A Happy Christmas, A Big Book of Christmas, Pan Macmillan 2005

Tick Tock, Read Me Out Loud, Pan Macmillan 2007

Starting School, Best Friends, Pan Macmillan 2006

The Toilet Monster, Poems to make you Shiver, Oxford University Press 2006

I Rhyme With, Puzzling poems to Drive you Crazy, Oxford University Press 2006

The Handsome Prince and Nightmare, Fiendishly Funny, John Foster Anthology 2004