Neal Zetter - Poet, Author, Entertainer

After earning some kind of income since 1989 as a poet, I went ‘full-time’ and started CCCP Workshops in spring 2005. It consists solely of me - comedy performance poet, author, educator and entertainer, Neal Zetter. My experience includes:

• Hosting thousands of face-to-face and virtual events in all 33 London boroughs and many more UK and international locations for children, teens, adults, families and seniors.

• Winning awards and acclaim for my many books.

• Securing major publishing deals with Troika Books and Otter-Barry Books.

• Performing since 1989 in West End comedy and poetry clubs, theatres, pubs, music venues, schools, colleges, the Royal Festival Hall, private parties etc.

• Running my own adult comedy spoken word events from 2009 where I put together, promote and compère shows featuring established and rising poetry, music and stand up comic talent from across the UK.

• Hosting adult comedy poetry evenings featuring John Cooper Clarke, Michael Rosen, Attila the Stockbroker and Kae Tempest and many more.

• Releasing a 16-track adult poetry CD in May 2008 - `Scrabble on Sunday'.

• Featuring in the London Evening Standard's `Get London Reading' literacy campaign in Jan 2012.

• Spending 25 years in senior management, communications and mentoring roles prior to taking up poetry full-time.

• Having several poems published on/in e.g. major London bus routes, the Guardian, Caterpillar Magazine, Poems About Families and The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems (both anthologies compiled by Brian Moses), Amazing Magazine, I Bet I Can Make You Laugh (anthology compiled by Joshua Seigal), Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble: Magical Poems (anthology chosen by Paul Cookson) and many more.

Key Projects

Far too many to mention them all but here are a few highlights:

• Extended primary school residencies at e.g. St Mary's Priory, St Ignatius (Haringey), Northwold (Hackney), Downsell Road, Davies Lane, Selwyn (Waltham Forest), Meridian Angels (Enfield), The Hyde (Barnet), Heathmere (Wandsworth), Willowbank (Bexley), St Anne’s (Tower Hamlets).

• Running hundreds of primary and secondary-aged AIM High Days for the Authors Abroad company in London and beyond.

• Secondary school projects to engage reluctant readers at e.g. Lampton (Hounslow), Whitmore (Harrow), Newman (Brent), Hampstead (Camden).

• Working in eight SEND schools in Kent with primary and secondary students during the Pop Up Festival.

• Resident Poet for `BBC Children in Need' project at Northgate School for teens with mental health issues, Edgware Hospital, and frequent workshops with similar young people at Newham Community Hospital.

• Resident Poet with adults at Homerton Hospital Brain Injury Unit in conjunction with Art and Speech Therapy Units.

• Resident Poet at Enfield's and Hounslow's KS3/4 PRUs for excluded teenagers,

• Poetry Masterclasses with all Enfield primary schools and a dozen primary and secondary schools in Gravesham Excellence Cluster, Kent.

• Working with many low confidence KS2 children across a wide range of Enfield primary schools with Enfield Parents and Children as part of the Grassroots and Starfish projects over 15 years

• Workshops for adults with mental health issues at e.g. St Mungo's homeless charity, The Black People's Mental Health Association, Brent Libraries, Barking & Dagenham Arts, Young Minds, Waltham Forest Social Services, Think Arts.

• Presentation skills training for adults in places of work e.g. Bexley, Brent and Newham Libraries staff and teens in secondary schools e.g. Overton Grange, Ilford Ursuline.

• Staff Insets in numerous primary schools e.g. Downsell Road, Globe, Sherwood Park..

• Fun holiday activities for children in libraries, youth centres etc in over twenty London Boroughs.