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FIREWORK POETRY SESSIONS – in school or online – available now! Details and booking via my agent, Authors Abroad. (NB Awaiting updating of Authors Abroad page above from summer seasides to winter fireworks and lights!) Also available – free – FIREWORK poetry-writing ideas and support, via video: https://youtu.be/5FtYdYg5vkI . Have fun with your creative class…
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NATIONAL POETRY DAY (UK) lands on Thursday, 5th October this year, with the theme of REFUGE. Are you ready? Here are some ‘refuge’ poems to inspire you – and your children if you’re a teacher, guardian or minder, at Poetry Roundabout: https://poetryroundabout.com/2023/10/02/national-poetry-day-refuge-poems-from-top-poets/… Mine is up there – or down there! –…
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TOPICS THIS TERM: AUTUMN LEAVES, WILD WOODS (& THEIR CREATURES). FIREWORKS, WEATHER. IN SCHOOL (IF IN REASONABLE REACH), or ON SCREEN. BOOKING THROUGH MY AGENT, AUTHORS ABROAD (click for link). ACTIVE AND INTERACTIVE, FUN AND INSPIRING! Details, prices and availability via Authors Abroad. More details, including content, feedback and photos here, on…
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Parrot Talk is my latest video-poem. It’s short, punchy, funny and daft, and will get even your reluctant poets on board! It’s fun when a parrot answers back… isn’t it? Mmm, not when they get OVER cheeky. Any rhymes to spot, within the rhyme? Can your class make up another rhyme, to…
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Lucky Me! is a bright, fun, little video-poem about having a double family. The poem’s narrator is a child with a mum and dad and also a step-mum and step-dad – i.e. both their parents are now with new partners. This means a double family for this contented youngster, making the poem a celebration of…
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Hello, My latest little video-poem, Banjo in the Sunset Glow, is now up on my YouTube channel – set to punchy music and bright pictures. Do take a look, and if you have any children around, show them! My poems are all FOR CHILDREN! This is a fun, jazzy, relaxing rhyme…
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Here’s my latest video-poem – MERMAID TECH. It’s available to view on my YouTube channel, ‘Poetry Fizz’, along with all sorts of other poems and rhymes for children. Mermaid Tech can also be found on The Dirigible Balloon, with other poems of mine and many by other children’s poets too. Mermaid Tech offers fun for…
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Half Past Thursday is a crazy poem of mine, published in The Caterpillar and now on my YouTube channel, Poetry Fizz, with accompanying picture sequence (also crazy). Time goes wrong in this poem, sending the narrator shooting between meal times – and worse – back before he was born! But there’s a happy-ISH…
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Feeling Fantastic is a published poem of mine and now a video-poem too, on my channel POETRY FIZZ. It’s about feeling empowered to do the ultimate – ‘record-gymnastic’. The child narrator feels they could housetrain a lion, do a high backflip into the pool, and a whole lot more. They’re on top of the…
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SUMMER GRASS – video-poem ‘Summer Grass’ – a free YouTube resource! – is a poem for running your fingers through, sinking into, rolling through, and lying flat in the depths of, to gaze up at the sky. Wings will pass overhead – bird wings? butterfly wings? – and the clear, blue sky will…
Kate Williams 