Can Poetry Save your Life?

Poet Ged Thompson visited Liverpool College last week to look at how journaling and creative capturing can reduce stress, improve resilience and aid emotional healing.

Jed is a born and bred Liverpool poet who has an amazing ability to capture observations of life in his poems. As a performance poet, he has performed for many years at local events, in his uniquely quiet and unassuming manner. Ged captivated Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 pupils during his workshop with the story about how he turned his life around after he discovered poetry, explaining how the freedom it gave him to express himself literally saved his life. As well as being a performance poet, Ged is also a published author. His first book, ‘Middle Earth Magic’, a book of fairy tales, has received great acclaim and sold copies internationally. The pupils were wowed by his live performance of his some of favourite poems and they greatly enjoyed his masterclass in creating poetry from observations. A superb event.