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“The poems are raw, heartfelt and full of Meg’s characteristic energy and rhythm.”

Ella Walsworth-Bell. Mor Poets. Mordardh: Surf Poetry.

I have a passion for rhymes and metaphors that identifies with people across class and backgrounds. I want my work to relate. I like to see through their eyes, to give voice to someone who doesn’t have one. My aim is to always write clearly andhonestly, hoping to reach rather than exclude people.I like political topics on the edge of things, the unsaid, the stories that could otherwise be missed.

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“Megan Chapman’s poem ‘The Privy’ evokes the intrusiveness of having to prove yourself and open your home to scrutiny for children who stand to lose so much and for whom security isn’t guaranteed even when you give everything you have and more.”

Dr Penny Shutt – poet, child psychiatrist, and foster carer turned special guardian

The workshops took place at the Privy Poetry Project – responding to the physical space, inspired by its very roots. Creating poetry with care experienced young people and sharing these young stories has been a beautiful journey, and one that hopefully connects you as the audience. I hope this project opens doors, shedding light on what's silenced, and also what's very much still needed. 

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“You should be Child Services in house performer, but these poems deserve to be heard.”

Annamaria Murphy is a published writer and was a long-term member of Kneehigh Theatre.

It’s very powerful, and I feel should be part of any paperwork/training/ preparation for anyone who is thinking of fostering. It would speak more to the realities and emotions. I found “look for it” particularly powerful, as it felt like you having aToo Close To Home connects the reader to the blurred lines and edited voices running parallel within us all. Offering connection to the faint whispers I have heard from foster carers on training, to social workers beating their head against the very walls that props up a broken system. I hope this book offers a self-explanation and the hope of embodying a thicker skin.