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Matt Harvey
Matt Harvey is a writer poet, and children’s poet. He often appears in anthologies, and he has written the rhyming texts Shopping With Dad illustrated by Miriam Latimer, and the Beastie and the Boys, illustrated by Chloe Uden. Shopping With Dad was made into a film by CBBC and has been translated into several languages. Matt has also written lyrics for children’s song cycles, collaborating with composer Stephen Deazley on The Songbook of Unsingable Songs, A Little Book of Monsters and more recently Peck! a schools’ opera for the Mahogany Opera Company’s ‘Snappy Opera’ series. His website is here.
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Here is one of Matt’s funny poems (which neatly sums up how I feel about maths!):
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Tense Times Table
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Once tense is tense
Twice tense is too tense
Three tense is quite stressed
Four tense is fraught
Five tense is frightening
Six tense is tightening
Seven tense is distressed
Eight Tense is taut
Nine tense is intense
Ten tense is uptight
Eleven tense – keep your distance
Twelve tense just might…
Thirteen tense – RIGHT! THAT’S IT! I’ve had it up to here with your tense times table, it’s not a proper poem it’s not a proper times table and that’s the last time you make me make a fool of myself in public… (continue ranting indefinitely, then fade, and look sheepish)
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© Mat Harvey
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