Balkan Fairytale Party – swirling music, story and song!
“Captivating!” “An engaging and entertaining performance!” A Balkan dance party swirled through with enchanting songs, music and sparkling spoken word, with Gundula Gruen, The Magic Violin Trio and Sally Pomme…
Stories, spells, songs – The Mighty Goddess show!
“Fiery, thrilling, powerful storytelling,” Bloomsbury Festival Electrifying, soulful storytelling for adults only! Pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton evokes powerful goddesses from across the globe. These feminist retellings are sly, subversive…
Events
WATCH: Sally Pomme Clayton and Sophie Herxheimer talk about The Mighty Goddess at Watkins Bookshop The Bog King’s Daughter – created for The Hans Christian Andersen Story Centre, New York.The…
Schools
Fairytales and myths belong to us all, they are a collective heritage that links us across the world and traditional stories are vital for a child’s development. Pomme believes listening…
The Magician’s Apprentice
“The magnificent, magical Sally Pomme Clayton wowed us all at Exeter Customs House – storytelling and sheer wonder.” Literature Works With a top hat from a junk shop and mail-order…
Galleries and Gardens
Sally Pomme Clayton has extensive experience of creating stories with exhibitions, objects, sites and buildings. She has been working with museums, galleries and heritage organizations for more than 25 years,…
Death and the Warrior Maiden
A young man is running away from Death, and a warrior woman fights on horseback, in disguise! Discover rare story gems from the Silk Road. The epic of Dede Korkut is…
The King with Dirty Feet
The King with Dirty Feet by Sally Pomme Clayton, illustrated by Rhiannon Sanderson (Otter-Barry Books 2021/ 2018) Winner of ‘Best Picture Book’, Oxford Book Awards 2019 The king has not…
The Mighty Goddess – World Myths
“This book really shows how interlinked all the people in the world are. Our dreams come from a similar node. A must have addition to your library.” Liz Berg, Facts…
Tales told in tents – stories of Central Asia
Tales Told in Tents – Stories of Central Asia by Sally Pomme Clayton and Sophie Herxheimer (Frances Lincoln 2004/2006) tells little known myths and fairytales evoking mountains and steppe, the…
The Phoenix of Persia
The Phoenix of Persia by Sally Pomme Clayton and Amin Hassanzadeh Sahrif (Tiny Owl 2019) Tells the story of baby Prince Zal born with hair as white as snow. His father…
Greek Myths
Sally Pomme Clayton performs stories from her collection ‘Greek Myths – stories of sun, sea and stone’ illustrated by Jane Ray (Frances Lincoln 2014). The stories are perfect for schools,…
Persephone
“Sally Pomme Clayton’s Persephone is deeply affecting… dramatically described in visionary pictures as well as words. “ The Times No flowers. No plants. No sunshine. When Hades carries Persephone down to…
Girls and Goddesses – the heroine in myth and fairytale
Dazzling goddesses, sly princesses, lazy daughters, wilful lasses, crazed sorceresses, brave maidens and girls with answers, meet bold and gutsy heroines! In these fairytales and myths girls, goddesses and women…
Publications
The Mighty Goddess- World Myths by Sally Pomme Clayton and Sophie Herxheimer (The History Press 2023) This stunning collection brings together over 50 goddess myths from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten –…
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