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Welcome to autumn! (Or are we still at the tail-end of August?) Here are two poems to get us braced for autumn proper. The first (my latest published), was written for children; the second is more for adults – gardeners, DIY enthusiasts, and anyone with a fence. The Wind The wind went tugging at our…
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AUTUMN TOPICS for my poetry workshops: Street Sounds Autumn Trees Fireworks Winter Lights Aim: to get ideas, words and poetry flowing from children of all ages, backgrounds, academic abilities and confidence levels. Content: exciting, multi-faceted inputs, including physical movement, pictures, artefacts, poem to listen to, idea-swapping, language-rummaging and – for young children – song with guitar to…
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Postcard from South America Venice! City of calm, clear canals, of graceful, gliding gondalas, of shimmering, shining ships! Ah, Venice! City of beautiful bridges and buildings, of ancient, elegant art, of fantasy, fable and fame! Yes, Venice would have been nice! If only we’d checked the boarding gate twice! Venezuela is not quite the same.…
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So, what do we do when the sun comes out at last? Grumble, of course. Sunshine Shock Can’t stand this – it’s sweltering! Dazzling me eyes! Scorching me skin! Giving me headaches! Doing me in! So much for blue skies – I’m going in! Or are you braving it – and the old deckchairs from that damp-ridden shed?…
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Hello teachers – this is for you! My latest feature for Primary Teacher Update magazine is just out, and it’s all about that trampled scrap of carpet in the corner of your classroom (sorry, I’m sure yours is lovely!) – and how to make the most of it. See ‘Shaking up carpet time’, p.34, June…
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Latest poem accepted: for publication in Australia’s state publication, The School Magazine, 2013/14: Sea Monster Sighting gliding, dipping tilting, tipping across the turquoise tinsel plunging, swooping loop-the-looping through the wedding-dress lace singing to the sunset sky her giantess’s lullaby then fading, fraying, sinking, shrinking, melting away in…
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What does May do? What does May do? What does May do? Magical marvels it does to you! Warms you through, starts you anew, charts new horizons, opens the view. Sparks new hope does May, does May, at least for a morning or two. (Copyright: Kate Williams)
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A Sunny spell is all very well… Was that spring or was it summer? Whichever it was, it’s left us glummer to be umbrella-free for a day or three. Time we sorted a plumber! Trust Britain to get the murkiest side of global warming! By coincidence, just after concocting that little rhyme this afternoon –…
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Here’s my latest published poem for children. It’s out now in the latest issue of Australia’s state publication: The School Magazine (Orbit, May 2013). The poem also features in my book, Swinging through the Sky (2007). Outside / Inside The clouds are crying, crying down my window pane. Today’s given up, cancelled its afternoon,…
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Blue sky? For more than a day? Normality? HOORAY! Busy Blackbird Skids about the garden, never stops to rest, stuffing beak with shreds and bits – never mind what’s best. Flaps off over treetops, dropping stalks and sticks… back again – more hops, more bits: blackbird building nest. From Wildlife Poems [see Book (for kids)…
Kate Williams 