The People's Poem

Over the last few months a group of participants from across Leicester City came together via Zoom to take part in poetry and spoken-word workshops led by local poets Mr Shay and Ty’rone Haughton. Inspired by Leicester City Council’s ‘We’ve Missed You’ campaign and its ‘By The Clock Tower’ poem especially written by Arch Creative co-founder Joe Nixon - the focus of the European Regional Development Fund’s (ERDF) Re-opening High Streets Safely campaign - participants created their own poems celebrating the diversity, resilience, and individuality of the people of Leicester and their optimism as lockdown eases and what people are most looking forward to. Together, they created a collaborative poem, which has been filmed across Leicester and its neighbourhoods.

[@chrisyoung-leicesterproper8525]

This is Amazing. Got me quite emotional! Great job to all involved.

[@chantellem7505]

It turned out great, loved this opportunity!

[@rozburch9705]

Wow, that was SO well done - thank you all, very inspiring!
I hope it will be well publicised

[@blakealexander9729]

This is so cool!!

[@suegreen155]

Fabulous well done guys. It was a pleasure being a part of this project.

[@josslynmcauley2753]

thought that was you Sue! Well done, this is fab :)

[@suegreen155]

@@josslynmcauley2753 Thank you. It was a great experience x

[@nicolahumphreys2127]

The ripple effects from participating in this project are still ongoing! I think the technical term is “dead chuffed with myself”. 😀 I’m looking forward to meeting up with y’all irl off-line soon.