Monthly Archives: October, 2018
Run up to National Poetry Day in Bath’s Forest of Imagination
On Saturday 28th September I was in the Forest of Imagination in Bath’s Kingsmead Square, reading poems from Apes to Zebras, to unsuspecting members of the public, both adults and children, who came to explore the Book Den (which was stocked by the kind authors attending Bath Children’s Literature Festival). Luckily everyone seemed to enjoy …
National Poetry Day Book: Poetry for a Change, Poem Plus Teaching Notes
This wonderful book(Otrer-Barry) is full of poems by the National Poetry Ambassadors on the theme for National Poetry Day of Change. I’m one of them, and my poem is below with the teachers’ notes which were prepared by the WONDERFUL CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education). I really recommend this book, the poems are …
The National Poetry Day Anthology – Poetry for a Change #NationalPoetryDay
Do you have one of these yet? EVERYONE needs one! Packed with poems from the National Poetry Day Ambassadors (I am one) and with poems chosen by the Ambassadors to complement their own. And NPD have launched a teaching sequence sharing how schools can use the NPD anthology across the primary years. Download it for …
National Poetry Day – Come and See Me at the Bath Children’s Literary Festival!
Want to write for children and teens? DON’T FORGET to join me and two other published graduates from Bath Spa University’s MA in Writing For Young People –Fleur Hitchcock, Mel Darbon, as we discuss our creative processes with MA Course Leader and author Julia Green. Join us afterwards for a friendly drinks reception for a chance to mingle and …
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