Make Your Own Shaped Poetry! BOOKED OUT Ruth Ennis

Discover how you can bring your poetry to life! Shaped poetry is when the shape of a poem reflects the story of the poem; a poem about a magical box in the shape of a square, or a poem about a forest in the shape of an evergreen tree. Poet and verse-novelist Ruth Ennis will teach you all about shaped poetry and help you write your very own shaped poem

This is a schools’ event. Age: 3rd – 6th class.

Email info@dublinbookfestival.com to book your class in.

Ruth Ennis is a poet and verse-novelist from Kildare. She has an M.Phil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College Dublin and is usually working with books in some capacity. Ruth has been published in The Irish Writer’s Handbook (Books Ireland) and I Am The Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere (Little Island). Her debut young adult verse novel Shorelines will be published in February 2026 (Little Island). She can be found giving book recommendations at any given time, as well as regularly sharing photos of her cat.