Stuff in the Press

Here are some articles and websites from the last month or so:

This is a profile of the wonderful Quentin Blake that includes a very generous account of Quentin's work on the 'Sad Book':

This is a profile of me that appeared in the Times. I don't think I used the word 'chaos' by the way, but misunderstandings are very easy when you're being interviewed!

This is a poem that I wrote for the Cheltenham Literature Festival, commissioned by the Times who sponsor the Festival

This is the story of what happened on Roald Dahl Day, written up for the CBBC website.

This is an article printed in the Guardian about poetry, written for Children's Book Week and National Poetry Day.

This the web chat I had on the BBC's Blue Peter website.

This is an interview in the London listings magazine Time Out

This is an interview called 'What makes poets tick?'

This is a write-up of one of my appearances at the Cheltenham Festival.

This is how one school responded to my visit to Nottingham Playhouse.

Bridget has an interesting blog on creative ways to approach education. Here's her response to the talk I gave for the first Laureate Event (see below).

Here is a picture taken at Aldeburgh. And another.

This is an interview done with me about a person who influenced me in my life.

Appearing on this website is a complete list of all my books along with awards and general cv stuff.

The First Laureate Event. This is the talk I gave at the first Laureate Event at the Institute of Education:

This is an interview with Adrian Mitchell and me that will appear soon in the Poetry Trust's newspaper.

This is an Interview with me that is going to appear in the 'Teacher' magazine.

This is an article I wrote about Picture Books, which I will expand when I give the Patrick Hardy Lecture (see events coming up).

This is the un-edited version of the interview Morag Styles did of me that went into 'Books for Keeps'.

This is an interview that some students at the University of York did with me