16th August, Live Canon for Kids: Poetry Planet, Larks in the Parks Festival

Join Live Canon for a riot of verses, rhymes, limericks, songs and games… for ages 5-8 and all the family. This brand new show explores our environment and how to take care of it, through a feast of poems by leading children’s writers. New poems, old favourites, poems to sing along to, poems to dance to, recycled poems…. Silly hats, poetry puppets, haiku balloons and a whole heap of fun. Directed by Helen Eastman, whose award winning shows for children include Cloudcuckooland, Speakout, Hercules and Poetry Party and featuring the much loved Live Canon ensemble, this promises to be a treat of the summer

12th November, Oxford Poets, The Oxford Playhouse, 5pm

Live Canon return to Friday at 5 with a new show created especially for The Oxford Playhouse. This hour-long performance features the work of generations of poets who have lived, studied and loved in Oxford. Featuring much-loved classics, introducing new work by contemporary writers and interspersed with music, this promises to be a very special treat. Live Canon perform poetry, from memory, at theatres throughout the UK. There is no better way to hear, see and experience verse than to sit back and let them bring it to life.