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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…
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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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