Comedy Writing Workshops 22 - 25 Jul 2014
Age 5 to 7
Have fun with funny poems and songs and then discover what Tony has discovered to be the five most hilarious words in the world! Then choose your own favourite five words and use them to help you write the funniest poem ever.
Age 8 to 12
Explore nonsense poetry with Tony and then try your hand at writing some of your own! Who knows what the result will be! Bring your creativity and your sense of humour (and lots of funny words!).
See Tony reading one of his poems P is for Poetry which is featured in the Irish poetry anthology Something beginning with P.
About Tony:
Tony was born in Dublin and studied literature at Essex University and Trinity College Dublin. An award-winning poet, Curtis has published nine warmly received collections. His most recent collections are: ‘Pony’ (Occasional Press 2013) with the painter Dave Liburn; ‘Folk’ (Arc Publications 2011); ‘An Elephant Called Rex and a Dog Called Dumbo – an A to Z of poems for children’ with illustrations by Pat Mooney, 2011. Last year also saw the publication of ‘Island Currach’ (Real Ireland 2012) with photographs by Liam Blake.
Curtis has been awarded the Irish National Poetry Prize, The Book Stop Award for Poetry and the Varuna House Exchange Fellowship to Australia. He has read his poetry in schools, colleges and at festivals all over the world to great acclaim. He is a member of Aosdana.
TreeV by Tony Curtis
The whole world
Is watching TV,
But me,
I’m watching a tree.
There is rarely
Anything good on TV,
There are fantastic
Things on Tree V.
What did you watch
Last night on TV?
Me, I watched
An owl on Tree V.
It had small white feathers
And big brown eyes,
And every time it went “too-wit
Too-woo”, what a surprise.
You have to pay
To watch TV.
It is free
To look at a tree.
They say
There’s reality on TV.
Open your window,
Look at a tree.
You can’t eat the apples
You see on TV.
You can eat the apples
That come from a tree.
And people get addicted
To watching TV.
You never see anyone running
To the park to look at a tree.
Except… joggers.
They say they love
The countryside, but secretly
They are tree huggers.
The stairs you climb
Are made from a tree.
The bed you sleep in
Probably comes from a tree.
Some say there is knowledge on TV
And I suppose that’s true.
But every book you’ve ever read
Began its life as a tree.
Lots of wildlife live in trees.
Fumes come from TVs,
They are called CFCs.
Fresh air comes from trees.
And TVs just sit
In the corner all day.
Trees sway and dance,
They enhance.
You say you have a big
52-inch flat screen digital TV,
I have a 250-foot analog
Redwood tree.
I wouldn’t want
To be a TV,
But wouldn’t it be fantastic
To be a tree?
