About I Will Write You a Poem
I Will Write You a Poem is a bespoke poetry writing service run by me, Carl Burkitt.
After countless family members, friends, friends-of-friends, and complete strangers asking me to write wedding readings, birthday poems, eulogies, and more, I decided to launch this website to sprinkle smiles, personality, and uniqueness into anyone’s big occasion.
For over 10 years I have been paid to write poems. And I write them for anyone.
As a part of the Poetry Takeaway I have written poems for people at music festivals, wedding fayres, town centres, farm shows, even the opening of a new building society in Wolverhampton.
I am the poet in-residence for the Opening Times magazine and the Stockport Post newspaper.
I have had three poetry books published, and appeared in anthologies such as You’re Never Too Much by Pan Macmillan, Alter Egos by Bad Betty, and Night Terrors by Acid Bath Publishing.
I run poetry workshops in primary school throughout England, and my poems for children have been published in the likes of the Dirigible Balloon.
If you’re looking someone to put your thoughts and feelings into words for someone you love, someone you’re proud of, someone who needs a pick-me-up then get in touch, because… I Will Write You a Poem.
Poetry books I have written
I Got a Job
I got a job as a midwife, a snake charmer, a wedding planner. I got a job polishing John Travolta’s shoes, buttering bread, ironing the Pope’s garments. I got a job as a magician in the local curry house.
I GOT A JOB is hilarious, peculiar, well-observed and heart-breaking. It is a mate sharing stories in the pub. It is Carl Burkitt’s attempt at imagining a more colourful, job-hopping life in 100 short tales.
56 People I’ve Never Met
These fifty-six glimpses of real and imaginary people offers something else – a glimpse into the human psyche, into a sense of others, into life itself. These vignettes speak for all of us, with a joy in being alive.
This is a celebratory collection that has an uncanny ability to bring the imaginary into the realms of the real, to such an extent that it feels like the subjects of the poems are people we know intimately.
What Does a Baby Think It Is?
The world is pretty wild. How do people keep going every day? How do people really feel? What are we? Do ghosts exist? What is hell? How do you know you have a forehead? If onions could cry, would you cut them? What part of your body would you eat?
Overwhelmed and uncertain, Carl asks and answers a these questions and more in his playfully hilarious debut poetry collection.
iwwyap 