Tony Hillier
Swindon's Community poet
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styled community poet and teacher, Tony Hillier,
runs unique workshops at usual and unusual venues
and on the streets.
He has over five years’ experience of taking poetry back to its roots, to working people within everyday settings. He has worked in Swindon, the South West, and Clapham Park Estate, London. He has performed at several festivals e.g. Big Green, Poole Book Festival and Guildford as well as at political and community gatherings. Birthday parties, charity fundraisers and yes, weddings and funerals have become a stock-in-trade as well.
When he's not leading local creative writing and poetry groups he may be found in his second home, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Here he works alongside local poetry groups and recently with an agency Kalam Margins Write, which combats isolation, through poetry, with marginalised children of Kolkata .
If you want to send a message use the 'Contact Me' link at the bottom of these website pages. Visitors are invited to leave a message on My Guestbook.
Thank you.
He has over five years’ experience of taking poetry back to its roots, to working people within everyday settings. He has worked in Swindon, the South West, and Clapham Park Estate, London. He has performed at several festivals e.g. Big Green, Poole Book Festival and Guildford as well as at political and community gatherings. Birthday parties, charity fundraisers and yes, weddings and funerals have become a stock-in-trade as well.
When he's not leading local creative writing and poetry groups he may be found in his second home, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Here he works alongside local poetry groups and recently with an agency Kalam Margins Write, which combats isolation, through poetry, with marginalised children of Kolkata .
If you want to send a message use the 'Contact Me' link at the bottom of these website pages. Visitors are invited to leave a message on My Guestbook.
Thank you.
east meets west
when east meets west
we are both blessed
with insight, in spite
of what the media portrays
he does this, she does that
when east meets west
we blow the media cover
and discover one another
Tony Hillier, Santeniketan, India 1996
