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June has swept by me in a whirl of workshops, so I’m snatching a few minutes of high summer meadow glory as I prepare for my final week of sea-themed sessions. Yes, I’ve been working like a dog through June, so I’m making the most of its final dog days now, slumped under the dogwood…
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Using my published poems to support my workshops My summer term workshop themes are Sea, Jungle and Mini-Beasts, and I’ll be bringing along one or two of my published poems on these topics to add to the input, where relevant to age and focus. If you’re a head teacher, class teacher or literacy coordinator, and…
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Summer is cracking its shell, pushing out at all sides; bursting to burst out. It’s prising open spring’s bulging buds, setting free the waiting colours and scents and petal patterns, stretching the soft stems taller, taller, and rolling velveteen sheens over hill and vale, as the sun (yes, sun – remember it?) warms up ready for…
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Just to say – I’ve been adding a few poems and rhymes to various pages of this site. These include a newly published verse for children on Published (for kids) page. See also Ponderings, Grim Side of Gardening, Mad Side of Mod, and also my overflow site, Poems4Pockets, if fancy a browse. Now for some…
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Suddenly it’s spring… isn’t it? Well, depending which day, or moment in fact, you happen to look out of the window. The flora and fauna seem to think it’s spring anyway – thank goodness – even if the sky’s still um-ing and er-ing, so that keeps us at the window – and even door, just…
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March is marching on, and it’s high time I caught up with it on my blog! Cheeping chicks, skipping lambs, bouncing bunnies (and the odd stray penguin, kangaroo, T-Rex, etc.) have been featuring in my Spring poetry sessions at schools these last few days. Never mind the occasional grey sky, the odd grab for a…
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This term is proving as exciting as ever – and not just because of the floods! My workshops have seen dragons drifting over school roofs and bursting in through breath-melted windows; planets made of bubblegum spinning through dungeon-dark space; and wild woods quivering with twitching tails and creaking branches. Next term – yes, the ‘summer’…
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Floods are a Pain (song) We’re used to bad weather: we’re used to the rain. We’re British: we bear it: we barely complain, but floods, floods, floods are a pain! Showers are fine; storms we don’t mind. We don’t need the sun to shine, but floods, floods – at floods we draw the line. Mud…
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Wildlife Poems – celebrating the first 5 years! My book Wildlife Poems, a brightly covered paperback collection for children, is now celebrating its 5th year. So, with World Book Day approaching (March 6th), as well as the book’s 5th birthday to celebrate, now seems a good time for a fresh whirl in the window. Wildlife Poems is packed…
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The Wind The wind went tugging at our trousers, shaking at our shirts, catching at our coats and hats, slapping at our skirts, racing us and chasing us home to our front door, where we shut it out because its manners were so poor. This poem of mine was published in Australia’s state publication, The…
Kate Williams 