{"id":3807,"date":"2015-09-30T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:21:00","slug":"ncc-tutor-receives-poetry-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/ncc-tutor-receives-poetry-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Tutor Receives Poetry Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"striped\">\n<p><strong>One of NCC Home Learning\u2019s tutors has received the great honour of being asked to read some of her own poetry at a prestigious event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"striped\">\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of NCC Home Learning\u2019s tutors has received the great honour of being asked to read some of her own poetry at a prestigious event.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Gerrard, who is a tutor for our Creative Writing course, read a selection of her poetry for the National Poetry Society in London on the 19<sup>th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held at the society\u2019s Poetry Caf\u00e9 in Covent Garden is a big honour for any poet to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Her reading at the event will feature the poems, \u201cSam the Dog Who Can\u201d, \u201cBunny Ruddington &#8211; Detective Extraordinaire\u201d, \u201cMr Grumpity Grumps\u201d and \u201cThe Chocolate Monster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sue has been writing poetry since she was 11 and was at Parish Church Primary School, and prepared for the event by trialling some of her poems in front of children who currently attend the school.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside tutoring for NCC, Sue works as the Poet in Residence at St. Helens College, and has had her work published in countless magazines and radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the six collections of poetry she has had published, she is also an author and has released two local history books, a collection of ghost stories and a spoken word cassette.<\/p>\n<p>She has also co-written a musical called \u2018The Child of Hale\u2019, which toured the North West and featured at Cowley Arts Centre.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in following in Sue\u2019s footsteps, why not take a look at our <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/creative-writing-diploma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Writing diploma<\/a><\/span>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of NCC Home Learning\u2019s tutors has received the great honour of being asked to read some of her own poetry at a prestigious event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/featured-image-test-1.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Nick Cooper","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/author\/nccnickcooper\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38363,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/38363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}