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Tag Archives: Poetry for Children

National Poetry Day!

Tomorrow is National Poetry Day! Being a National Poetry Day Ambassador, I will be posting poems and videos here and on my sister blog, Poetry Roundabout on this year’s theme of Vision. Here is a poem I wrote for a book edited by Brian Moses, called The Cowpat-Throwing Contest, and Other Sporting Poems. The illustration …

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Radioblogging.net

  If you are a teacher or parent or young person learning from home, if you haven’t discovered the excellent Russel Prue and Pie Corbett’s radioblogging show, on EVERY day, then you are missing out! Lots of interviews with poets and authors, great writing ideas, readings, fun literacy games… the list goes on. It’s all …

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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 …

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