Brendan Hawthorne

You can contact Brendan by phone, email or follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

Telephone:  (44) 07970 441110

Email: brendanhawthornepoet61@gmail.com

Facebook: facebook.com/brendanhawthornewriter

Twitter @BrenHawthorne

 

Private and corporate commissions undertaken.  

Personal milestone poems and songs written to order.

Some commissions to date in no particular order:

• Winner of the National Dialect Bill o' Bow's Trophy for best written dialect piece 2023/24
• Featured essayist BBC Radio 3 Black Country Secrets 2023
• These Streets Brierley Hill Project 2022
• Featured in BBC Radio 4 Tongue and Talk Episodes 1 and 4, Sept. 2020
• Winner of the National Dialect Bill o' Bow's Trophy for best written dialect piece 2019/20
• Winner of the National Dialect Bill o' Bow's Trophy for best written dialect piece 2018/19
• One of the Black Country's 100 Hundred Masters
• BBC The One Show (appearance with Shirley Bassey)
• BBC TV Living in'66 (appearance with Adrian Chiles)
• If Walls could Speak - The National Trust 
• Brierley Hillness - English Heritage 
• Round Oak Reminiscences - Steel industry aural history project Dudley MBC 
• My Words, My Story - Sandwell Adult and Family Learning 
• Who Cares? Sandwell Young Carers 
• Creative Community Arts Project 
• "Marathon Poems and Song" (For Blind Dave Heeley)
• Morrison's Superstore public art (with Steve Field) 
• Wednesbury Community Banner (Sandwell MBC) 
• Sandwell 6 Towns postcard series (Sandwell MBC) 
• Switch-on of Wednesbury Christmas Lights - 
• Saint Bartholomew’s Church at 800 – Poetry 
• Cataloguing Kays – Worcester University 
• West Midlands Smooth Radio Ambassador 2010-11
• Writing workshops, commissions and performances for diversity and faith days
• Appearance at Stafford poetry Festival
• Guest poet for National Poetry Day - Walsall Libraries
• Reading of excerpts from the Vernon Manuscript - Birmingham City University
• Memories of Glebefields reminiscence project - Sandwell Libraries 
• Black Country Dialect, Ghost Stories of the Black Country and Birmingham and Black Country Wit and Humour - Publications - Bradwell's
• The 1913 Wednesbury Tubeworkers Strike - A Musical Play,  Hard graft- All for twenty three bob