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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…
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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…
