Poetry

‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’…
12th September 2024
I’ve done a book called Pebbles (Smokestack Books). It’s made up of what we can call ‘thoughts’ rather than ‘poems’.

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Long Thin Poem
26th February 2024
If you change the shape of how you write, it can change the way you think and it can...
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Don’t Drown
24th October 2023
You could say that this is a poem about being in water. That’s what it looks like. But what...
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What Would You Say to a Bumble Bee?
5th June 2023
What would you say to a bumble bee, or any bee? Or a wasp? Or an ant? Or a...
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Family Secrets – a Poetry Idea
7th March 2023
In every family there are secrets. Sometimes these secrets are connected to a photo, or a picture or a...
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Ian McMillan’s ‘Strolls’
30th August 2022
Every day, the poet Ian McMillan does a tweet of what he sees on his ‘strolls’. This is the one...
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Poem by my Cat
21st February 2022
The idea behind this poem is that a pet has thoughts about the person looking after it. Our cat loves...
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A ‘Listening-Thinking’ Poem
1st November 2021
This is what I could call a ‘listening-thinking poem’. The first part is about what I can hear (or...
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Sweet Sleep
14th July 2021
This is from Many Different Kinds of Love. If you want to write poems you could take this poem...
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Poem Idea
13th April 2021
You’re in school assembly…what’s going on? Perhaps a teacher is speaking…what are they saying?…perhaps some children are doing ‘Show...
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Poetry Idea
6th January 2021
Here’s a poem I wrote that is a mix of what I see in hospital when I go in...
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Stand Together
30th January 2020
Each year Holocaust Memorial Day has a theme. This year it’s ‘Stand together’. I work closely with schools in...
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Collected Ideas for Poetry With Year 1
3rd June 2019
For the writing blog this month, I’ve collected together a set of tweets that I put up on twitter...
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Over My Toes
30th April 2019
Before you read this poem to the children, talk with them about how wherever we are there are sounds....
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What I Saw
20th March 2019
This is a poem about going out and looking. Some of it is really, really what I saw and one...
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Poetry to Commemorate the Holocaust
14th January 2019
On Sunday January 27 it’s Holocaust Memorial Day. I will be in Cambridge at a ceremony to commemorate those...
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My Mum and the Flower
23rd November 2018
Here’s a new poem I’ve written...
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The Child Who Was Wild
31st October 2018
You can ask the children to talk to each other about anything that comes to mind, anything that they...
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Poems & Emotions
29th September 2018
We’re used to thinking of one kind of poem being about feelings and emotions - love, sadness, mourning, hope...
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Reveal-Conceal and Other Ideas For the Classroom
15th May 2018
Teachers sometimes ask me for ways they can use to get away from the rigid questioning of children about...
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