Poets on the Road

Apply for a free visit from one of our poets on the road for a fun and interactive day celebrating the joy of poetry. We'll work with you to tailor an experience that can include an assembly, creative writing and performance workshops and creating your own poems. In line with Poetry Together's aim to bring younger and older generations together, we ask that you then share your poems over tea and cake with grandparents, a local care home or elderly community group. 

Meet the poets

Kate Wakeling

Rhiannon Oliver James

Kate Wakeling writes for children and adults. She is the author of three acclaimed children’s poetry collections: Moon Juice, Cloud Soup, and A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop (for younger readers). Kate’s work for children has won the CLiPPA prize, The Week Junior ‘Book of the Year’ for poetry and been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Kate loves sharing and performing her work with young audiences, with recent appearances at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Cheltenham Literary Festival and the Imagine Children’s Festival at Southbank Centre. She is a keen player of Balinese gamelan music and an enthusiastic champion of guinea pigs.

Rhiannon Oliver is an actress, poet, and workshop facilitator based in Cardiff. Rhiannon trained as an actress at RADA and has worked with companies such as Shakespeare’s Globe, The National Theatre, National Theatre of Wales, BBC, and Sky TV.

She has been writing poetry for children since 2020. Her debut poetry collection for children age 8-12 will be published by Firefly Press in 2026.  Her poems feature in anthologies from Oxford University Press, Macmillan Children’s Books and Firefly Press, with further forthcoming. She has also been widely published in children’s poetry magazines and websites including, The Caterpillar,  Tyger Tyger, The Toy, The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy and Paperbound.   Rhiannon has written and created performance videos for The Big Welsh Rhyme Time (Book Trust Cymru) and her poetry has appeared on TV (Only Boys Aloud Christmas Concert, S4C).  

Rhiannon offers lively workshops centred around writing and performing poetry. She has facilitated workshops in many schools, libraries and hubs, and for organisations such as Literature Wales, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation. 

 There is more on her website: www.rhiannonoliver.com