Exercise One: Imagine yourself as the writer you want to be and write a book blurb on yourself

(5 lines maximum)

Joanne Borrill was made Poet Laureate in January this year after a lifetime of achievements. To date she has had 7 poetry collections published and 14 humorous children’s books. She has recently completed a couple of ‘laugh out loud’ chick-lit novels and hopes to use her residency as Poet Laureate to show poetry doesn’t have to be boring.