Welcome to ANGELA LOCKE’s web site.

'The World is Imagination set Free'

Iona 2009 was a huge success. A great buzz, a great international group of writers, including two from the USA, inspiring work, much laughter and friendship. Hard to repeat but we'll try!

The dates of the next Iona Writing Retreat are 7th-11th May 2010

Angela is a writer, poet and Creative Writing tutor, living and working in the beautiful lakes and mountains of the English Lake District, where she tutors a Creative Writing Group in Mungrisdale (www.mungrisdalewriters.org.uk) and works with adult groups and in schools across the county. She also runs an annual Writing Retreat on the island of Iona (see Iona page). Angela has also been a tutor for the Senhouse Writers group in Maryport, www.senhousemuseum.co.uk. The museum has sponsored a book of poetry by Angela called 'Walls of the Worlds End' which was made up of her poems commissioned by the 'Writing on the Wall Project', during which Angela was a Writer-in-Residence on Hadrian's Wall. Detail about the Writing on the Wall project and the major book which has just been published with the work of all the poets involved, can be found on www.writingonthewall.co.uk

Angela's books and poetry are mainly inspired by the wonderful areas where she lives and works, and her heart is also in the Himalayas, where she has spent much time working for the charity The Juniper Trust, which she founded in 1994. Her second poetry collection, Into the Lotus, was first published in Nepal, is inspired by the Himalayas, and is sold in aid of Juniper Trust.

Angela has been doing Writing Residencies at numerous primary schools including Beaconside Infants in Penrith, a project sponsored by the Book Trust, and is about to work with a group of Gifted and Talented children in West Cumbria.

Recently, Angela Locke had the great honour to be commissioned to write a poem for HRH The Prince of Wales to launch the start of the Herdwick season at Booths supermarket in Keswick, part of the support Booths gives to the local farming community. She performed the poem in front of HRH Prince Charles on February 5th 2007 in Keswick. The poem 'Ode to a Herdwick' can be found on the Books and Poems page, and is on HRH The Prince of Wales's website at www.princeofwales.gov.uk for his visit to Cumbria for that date. Angela Locke used to breed Herdwick sheep and retains a great love for the breed, so she was delighted to be asked to write a poem about this unique Cumbrian sheep.

Maryport LitFest 2009.

Following on from the success of the first LitFest at the Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport ,the next LitFest ' Words on Stone' will be from 13th-15th November 2009. The theme will explore Mountain, Rock, and Sacred Stone. Doug Scott, Grevel Lindop and Julian Cooper will be among those appearing in an exciting weekend Literary Festival which is determinedly rooted in Cumbria and its traditions. www.senhousemuseum.co.uk

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