Author Archive: Liz Brownlee
Love Books
There is one thing which every writer acknowledges – to write books you must love books and if you love books you read books and if you read lots of books you can write better books. Lola knows this. Here she is eyeing a cake hungrily at the recent North Somerset Teachers’ Book Awards ceremony, …
Reading Patron of Chewton Mendip Church of England VA Primary School
I am very pleased to have just become the Reading Patron for Chewton Mendip Primary School. I visited today and met all the children in each class, Rabbit, Hedgehog, Badger, Squirrel and Fox. What a lovely school! I read some poems, and was asked a lot of excellent questions. I took Lola with me of …
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 …
Be the Change – Global Climate Action Day
This is a scheduled post. Today is Global Climate Action Day – and I will be taking action by marching in Bristol with our young people to protest the government’s inaction, and all governments’ inaction on this issue. On the subject of sustainability, Be the Change has arrived, in the form of my, Matt Goodfellow …
Lola, my Literary Assistance Dog…
I hear that there are new dogs on the scene, imposters, claiming to be the first literary dogs. Well, I can assure you that LOLA is the MOST literary dog. Here she is reading children’s poetry as a mere puppy. This is her, totally exhausted after perusing my Chambers Thesaurus. It’s tiring, being a literary …
Be the Change!
I was so excited to get the cover artwork yesterday for my new book with Macmillan, produced with my lovely writing companions, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens. This is a book I’ve wanted to write for a long time – poems about sustainability, all aspects of climate crisis, with facts and ‘You Can Help’ information, …
Reaching the Stars up with the Stars at the RSC
Last weekend I was with some poet friends in Stratford Upon Avon. On Saturday evening we went to see Taming of the Shrew, with women in all the men’s roles. Not my favourite Shakespeare play, but transformed into THE best Shakespeare I’ve seen at the RSC or anywhere, do go and see it if you …
