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Sammy Weaver
Sammy Weaver is Poet Laureate for Rochdale 2025-26. She will be capturing the spirit of Rochdale's people and landscapes in a new series of poems. Sammy will be leading workshops for school children in libraries boroughwide and for adults in community settings.
Sammy's debut pamphlet Angola, America (Seren, 2022) won Mslexia’s Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021 and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2023. Her poems have appeared in The Irish Times, The Moth, Colorado Review, Mslexia, Anthropocene and The Island Review. She was made a Yaddo Fellow in 2025.
Sammy has ten years' experience leading creative sessions in community, school and criminal justice settings. She is a passionate believer that poetry can help anyone grow in self-belief and discover the power in their own voice.
Get in touch if you are interested in commissioning me to write a poem, do a reading or lead a workshop.
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