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A composite image of three brightly coloured children's poetry book covers.

Danger leaps from off the page

Annie Fisher looks at some of the best new poetry collections for children

Continue readingDanger leaps from off the page
Part of the cover of the first edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'. It shows a bearded fellow sitting halfway up a mast ringing a bell. It's a bit windy.

Nine tradesmen and a beaver

Edward Wakeling introduces 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Lewis Carroll

Continue readingNine tradesmen and a beaver
Roy Marshall reading with a microphone in his hand. He is wearing glasses.

Castaway Companions

Castaway Poet Roy Marshall chooses poems by David Jones, Paul Batchelor and John Donne

Continue readingCastaway Companions
Old black and white picture of Billy Childish and Tracey Erin from the back cover of Childish's Zine 'Prity Thing'.

But is it art? 

Rowan Bell on the art of Tracey Emin and the poetry of Billy Childish

Continue readingBut is it art? 
Drawing of a cow with wings on a pink background. It is saying 'Bong' and it's by Spike Milligan.

Poetry for children: where do we start?

Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies

Continue readingPoetry for children: where do we start?
Photo of Katrina standing on the shore. Crab pots are behind her. Photo by Joe Grabham.

A curlew flings its loop of sound

Rowan Bell travels to Amble to talk to poet, historian and broadcaster Katrina Porteous

Continue readingA curlew flings its loop of sound
Photograph of a muddy track leading into a woodland. The trees leaves are a vivid green and it looks like it has been raining.

A simple tree rooted in a quiet dream

Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of Tree Poetry 

Continue readingA simple tree rooted in a quiet dream
An owl (Google say's it's a barn owl) sitting on a leather gauntlet.

The Lies of Owls

Rebecca Ferrier explores truth, doubt, and lies in poetry, and looks at how poems can act as windows into our past selves

Continue readingThe Lies of Owls
Christopher Arksey looking at the camera. He's wearing glasses and a striped top.

New, hopeful arrangements

Christopher Arksey chooses poems by Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island

Continue readingNew, hopeful arrangements
Image from a book illustrating the dialect poem 'The Lion and Albert' showing four people in Edwardian dress discussing something. The picture is titled 'The manager had to be sent for.'

Ah, bostid is the golden bowel!

Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry

Continue readingAh, bostid is the golden bowel!
Paris at night in silhouette.

This barter of enthusiasm 8

Roy Marshall, Kathryn Gray and Mark Anthony Owen choose poems by Suzannah Evans, James Fenton and Connie Bensley

Continue readingThis barter of enthusiasm 8
Photograph showing poetry books on a bookshelf.

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life

Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf

Continue readingTo burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life
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