Do pigeons ever get a craving for cake? How can laughter be more powerful than a sword? Life is full of these big, important questions!

Internationally renowned poets John Agard and JonArno Lawson are trying to answer the questions that keep them awake at night, like why do days have names but not weeks? Come along as they share some of their silliest, most speculative poems from their collection Wise Up! Wise Down! and encourage young readers to embrace their own curiosity about the world.

Funny, thought-provoking, and full of the joy of life, come curious and leave…curiouser!

John Agard is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children’s writer, now living in the UK. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2021 was awarded BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

JonArno Lawson is a four-time winner of the Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Children’s Poetry. As a nonsense poet, Lawson’s poems feature clever rhymes, whimsical images, and wordplay.

Event produced in association with Renaissance One.