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So honoured to be featured as Guest Poet for June by famed children’s poet and master of anthologies, BRIAN MOSES! Do take a look, not just at my slot, but at the long and impressive line-up of other children’s poets spotlit up there! Here’s the link: http://brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/06/kate-williams-hi-im-childrens-poet-also.html Three of my poems are…
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Poetry Fizz is the name of my growing YouTube channel. (Formerly ‘Rolling Rhymes’.) The channel offers short, punchy poems for children +, presented as bubbly soufflés of words, pictures and sound – an accessible alternative to the printed page for some, perhaps. As a slow reader myself, I would have found a sensory mix like…
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STOP PRESS! My new book – Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Amazing Animal Poems – publishes on 9th January ’25. Publisher: Otter-Barry Books.Available from Amazon or your local bookshop or library (if you still have one!)It’s the squawk of the town!🐔 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Watch out! Monster Alert! I’m adding poems and rhymes to…
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As the blossom comes and the leaf buds start unfurling, it’s uplifting to watch the trees come alive again. And not just watch, but LISTEN! Here’s ‘Can You Hear The Treetops?’ – my poem for young children about just that, on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iMj4f-dByoc And here’s another, with stirring musical background: ‘Bring me…
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POETRY WORKSHOPS for SPRING TERM! Visit or Online Exciting themes, performance options, singing with ukulele, super-interactive! Bookings through Authors Abroad – click here for details Happy New Year!
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Here are three FRIEND poems of mine, all published a while back: MUTUAL WISH – published in My Gang, Macmillan, 1999 If only I was Natalie,I’d have everything going for me.She’s a brilliant friend and we gossip no end.I just wish she was me. She’s quick, sly, slick, knows every…
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Attention teachers! My poetry workshops are running as ever this summer term – in school or on screen, as you wish. Please see my Workshops page for details and feedback: Summer theme: SEASIDE Here’s a video-poem on the theme: BEACH MIRAGE, with guitar chords and picture sequence (please click for link). Kate
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Description of a Rabbit Pompom tail, marble eyes, ears that swivel round, fluffy little legs, elastic-lined for diving underground. Bounds around as the sun goes down, merry as a merry-go-round, pompom tail flicking up-down-up, no sound. That’s your rabbit. Cute? Absolutely. Cuddly? Could be, but first you have to grab it. Kate Williams (Illustration…
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Spring is wide open and wonderful to write about! Children can focus on whichever aspects appeal most to them – from pretty blossom to muddy puddles, and from cuddly chicks to slithery tadpoles. There are the colours to celebrate, the sweet fragrance in the air and the crisp, new shoots of leaf, grass, flower, as…
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A Valentine for Caroline Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine! Bear with me a minute please, I’m on the other line. Oh my darling, oh my darling, what was that you said? Please ring back another time. I’m on the phone to…
Kate Williams 