FAMILIES gathered together on the carpet in Launceston Library on February 1 to join in colourful and quirky crafts with the Poetry Postie.

Her busy, interactive performance had children making poetry postcards, lyrical letters, sing-o-grams and parcel pets — many to be taken home, but a couple to be left behind to be gifted later on in the afternoon at Launceston Memory Café.

Poetry Postie often collects notes and small gifts to pop in her post bag to be delivered to members of the communities she visits.

Quite recently, she had worked with St Stephens Community Academy, which forms part of her project to inspire whole communities to explore the notion of communication with poetry and song.

She visits Launceston yearly for the Charles Causley Festival, and will be back between July 24 and 26 this year.

The Postie explains: “The project’s aim is to raise aspirations and show everyone that there is a big world out there — one that they can forge a link with. To remind us, through poetry, that underneath it all we are all part of one community — the world.”