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www.bookapoet.co.uk [email protected] Neal Zetter is a London-based comedy performance poet - with a 25-year background in communication management and mentoring - who uses written and performance poetry to develop literacy skills, self- expression, confidence and creativity in children, teens and adults. Through his company of one – CCCP Workshops Ltd - he makes language fun and accessible for the least engaged while stretching and challenging the most able. He has a 23-year track record of appearing in comedy and poetry clubs and theatres and runs his own adult spoken word venue. Neal speaks at conferences in which he includes an interactive comedy performance as part of his presentation, runs fun presentation skills seminars using the medium of performance poetry and ‘teaching poetry’ Insets His workshop themes are inexhaustible but include: superheroes, food, London, sport, war & peace, emotions, music, the moon landing, Black History heroes, animals, self-identity, respect, relationships, colours, weather and many more. Residencies: • Davies Lane Primary School, Leytonstone, weekly for last four academic years, 2008 and ongoing, running literacy booster poetry workshops • Northgate School, Barnet, Jan-July 2012, running a BBC Children in Need project for teens with severe mental health issues • Homerton Hospital (adult) Brain Injury Unit, Jan-Sept 2009 • Enfield’s KS3/4 PRU for excluded teenagers, weekly, 2008-2010 Plus • Featured in the London Standard’s Get London Reading literacy campaign, Jan 2012 • Issued an adult poetry CD, Scrabble on Sunday, 2010 • Published in the Guardian, on London’s buses and in six self-published poetry books Neal is available for full or half day workshops, performances, for INSET days, as a guest speaker, and long-term contracts as a workshop facilitator and poet-in-residence. Workshops start from £250 for a half day (up to 3 hours) and from £400 for a full day, plus travel expenses. Neal is based in London but travels all over the UK. For further information, to book Neal or to check availability, please email Lynsey at [email protected]. A non-refundable 50% deposit is required when making a booking. (We will endeavour to re-arrange any cancellations wherever possible.) Our terms and conditions are available at www.bookapoet.co.uk and will be included with quotes / bookings. Neal Zetter 'The feedback was very positive - the teachers were in awe of the outcome' ~ Maureen Okoye, Headteacher, Davies Lane Primary School, London
