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Today is #PoetsDay Here's a throwback to a #PoetInLockdown sonnet from @IMcMillan in 2020.
Visit our website where you can read two new poems by Ian, we'd also love for you to have a go at writing your own sonnet, either reflecting on the pandemic or life in 2025 👇
NEW BLOG: We're bringing back something from 2020....
#PoetInLockdown with @IMcMillan documented the weird times we lived through in 2020, we'd love to see your sonnets that reflect on this time or your feelings about 2025
https://t.co/cjxq1uy3m2
I can't believe it's four years to the day that @IMcMillan became Barnsley Museums' #PoetInLockdown
Poet in Lockdown - Sonnet No. 1
We’re pleased to reveal that Barnsley’s own Ian McMillan has become Barnsley’s ‘Poet in Lockdown’. Listen to Ian’s first sonnets each night at 8pm over the bank holiday weekend!
To find out more visit: https://t.co/pHARwXmk3g
#PoetinLockdown
Poetry and music are happy companions.
For #NationalPoetryDay we are sharing these wonderful compositions by music students at Barnsley College created in response to the Hear My Voice 2020 #PoetInLockdown project.
https://t.co/xlglbJEYea
@IMcMillan That's great to hear! I've just worked out it's the anniversary of you first becoming a #PoetInLockdown https://t.co/1hyvEMglob @GabyLees
Poet in Lockdown - Sonnet No. 1
We’re pleased to reveal that Barnsley’s own Ian McMillan has become Barnsley’s ‘Poet in Lockdown’. Listen to Ian’s first sonnets each night at 8pm over the bank holiday weekend!
To find out more visit: https://t.co/pHARwXmk3g
#PoetinLockdown
Our good friend and masterful poet @JethroPlatts was inspired to write this Sonnet for Spring by
#PoetInLockdown @IMcMillan
It's a pleasure to have this opportunity to share it with you
#WorldPoetryDay 2022
#WorldPoetryDay It's 2 years since the first national lockdown. During the pandemic @IMcMillan became our #PoetInLockdown This is the first sonnet shared back in April 2020
@HearMyVoiceBsly will be sharing poems throughout the day.
Recently @EBMuseum was nominated for Museum of the Year.
@IMcMillan wrote a special #PoetinLockdown sonnet to celebrate
https://t.co/FjodA7rg50
Vaccine sonnet #PoetInLockdown @IMcMillan Thankyou our clinicians in Barnsley vaccinating will ❤️ this !
"Sonnets are like vaccines - the more the better - and they do protect you against the outside world" @IMcMillan, Feb. 2021
Good night from #PoetInLockdown
Find the COVID Sonnets here: https://t.co/bze4DbrQqu
and in this book: https://t.co/Twxp5mbOji
@EBMuseum #MotY
@artfund
"Sonnets are like vaccines - the more the better - and they do protect you against the outside world" @IMcMillan, Feb. 2021
Good night from #PoetInLockdown
Find the COVID Sonnets here: https://t.co/bze4DbrQqu
and in this book: https://t.co/Twxp5mbOji
@EBMuseum #MotY
@artfund
As #PoetInLockdown @IMcMillan read out his choice of the sonnets sent in by the public. Here is a wonderful example by @AndrewSpacey
You can find them all on YouTube here: https://t.co/gwmtlaD667
and in the #PoetInLockdown book: https://t.co/EJ21612d9a
@artfund #MotY
@EBMuseum
All 24 of the #PoetinLockdown sonnets by @IMcMillan can be found on YouTube here: https://t.co/C83OmYzaWE
and have been published together in a book by @BarnsleyMHT which is available here: https://t.co/EJ21612d9a
@artfund #MotY
@EBMuseum
Thanks to @IMcMillan for being our #PoetInLockdown as well a being a big supporter of us and everything we do ❤️
Ian has also narrated this wonderful video by @artfund featuring just a few reasons why we are shortlisted for #MuseumOfTheYear 2021
https://t.co/PxvK7oItkJ
During the #PoetInLockdown project we continued to work with local poets. Eleven of them created workshop videos to support new writers of all ages - including a series of top tips by Barnsley's wonderful poet laureate, @Inkandamaranth
@EBMuseum #MotY
@artfund
We're enjoying all your responses to @IMcMillan's latest #PoetInLockdown sonnet!
What do you love about museums? @MuseumsAssoc @MuseumCrush @ace_thenorth @MusDevYorks
Write a poem and share with us @artfund #MuseumOfTheYear @EBMuseum @HearMyVoiceBsly
@BarnsleyMuseums @WFMuseums @EghamMuseum @LULGalleries @CliftonParkMus @YorkAdventurers @YorkshireMuseum @SMTrust @CreswellCrags @Northlincmuseum @RoystonMuseum @MPSHeritage @BradfordMuseums @PenleeHouse @ColMuseums @OxonMuseum @SheffMuseums @ECMFCM When it comes to sharing knowledge,
We really cannot stop.
But when you've finished learning,
Exit through the shop.
Just weeks into the #PoetInLockdown project, hundreds of sonnets had been written by the public in response. @IMcMillan began to choose and read some of his favourites.
@KenBrookes2 was new to writing but has now published his own book
@artfund
#MotY
@EBMuseum
The #PoetInLockdown project ran throughout the COVID crisis.
@IMcMillan created a powerful record of our age which inspired many to pick up a pen and write, often for the first time since school.
Here is sonnet 24, 06.08.2020
@EBMuseum
#MotY
@artfund
This one made Jackie smile! Thanks @WFMuseums
We're enjoying seeing your poems about why you love museums, please keep them coming!
#MuseumOfTheYear @EBMuseum @artfund #PoetInLockdown @IMcMillan
@BarnsleyMuseums @EghamMuseum @LULGalleries @CliftonParkMus @YorkAdventurers @YorkshireMuseum @SMTrust @CreswellCrags @Northlincmuseum @romanpalace @RoystonMuseum @MPSHeritage @BradfordMuseums @PenleeHouse @ColMuseums @OxonMuseum @SheffMuseums @ECMFCM Museums are great,
Museum twitter is fun,
We've got teapots and dolls,
(they're creepy and won't be outdone)
We enjoy a fierce battle,
Our memes always manage to stun,
We try to act like serious adults,
But mostly just love a good pun.
This sums up #MuseumTwitter purrfectly....
#PoetInLockdown @IMcMillan #MuseumOfTheYear @artfund @HearMyVoiceBsly @ace_national
@BarnsleyMuseums @WFMuseums @EghamMuseum @LULGalleries @CliftonParkMus @YorkshireMuseum @SMTrust @CreswellCrags @Northlincmuseum @romanpalace @RoystonMuseum @MPSHeritage @BradfordMuseums @PenleeHouse @ColMuseums @OxonMuseum @SheffMuseums @ECMFCM A haiku for #museumtwitter...
The greatest of friends
With many mad bonkers brains
Who love their museums
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