Monthly Archives: October, 2019
Climate Crisis Poems from Tuffley Primary School!
Tuffley Primary School came to Cheltenham Literary Festival to see Matt Goodfellow and I perform some The Same Inside and Be the Change poems, and afterwards they wrote some excellent climate crisis poems themselves – which I am very pleased to be able to share with you. Paul, I really like the image of the …
Cheltenham Literary Festival
On Wednesday 9th October Matt Goodfellow and I were performing together for the first time, at Cheltenham Literary Festival, in the Sunday Times Garden Theatre. This isn’t a dedicated children’s literary festival, like Bath, and the green room was quite a lot larger as it also hosts people who write for adults. The photo above, …
Truth Poem for National Poetry Day – The Refugee
Poem by Liz Brownlee, read by Liz Brownlee, thank you to Chris Riddell for the illustration.
Poems from a Green and Blue Planet
I was sent this beautiful gif which features a verse from my poem, Snow Fox, by Hachette books. Poems From Green and Blue Planet is out tomorrow in a book shop near you, on #NationalPoetryDay! I hope you are all going to share a poem with someone, any poem, or a truth poem (the theme …