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Andrew Collett
Andrew Collet started writing in c1979 as a choirboy, in a bus shelter, waiting to return home from Newcastle Cathedral. He became a teacher; then over ten years visited hundred of schools and festivals as a children’s performance poet. He remains published in over a hundred anthologies and his fiction and poetry have been included in the Oxford Reading Tree, Oxford Literacy Web and many other schemes. He also had five collections of his own work published. His material has been broadcast and used by exam boards across the world. Andrew has more recently been forced to take a step back from writing. However, he still loves to party with the poets. Three of Andrew’s can be found in the ever popular The Works, Ed. Paul Cookson, Macmillan.
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Here is one of Andrew’s lovely poems:
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Autumn Leaves
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Around the playground
autumn leaves
parachute down
from half-dressed trees,
silently seeking
hiding places,
with their wrinkled,
yellow faces,
looking for
a rescue boat;
a classroom door;
a child’s coat,
trying to steal
a minute more
until lost for good
on the playground floor.
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© Andrew Collett
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