Happy World Poetry Day!
To celebrate, here is a video of Poets are Everywhere, featuring poets Liz Brownlee, the late and wonderful Gerard Benson, Catherine Benson, Jane Clarke, Sue Hardy-Dawson, Andrea Shavick, Roger Stevens, and Philip Waddell. Written by the poets, with extra verses by Jan Dean, Michaela Morgan and Graham Denton. Filmed on location in Bristol, thanks to Blackwell’s Bookshop and Bristol City Museum.
From a new imprint of Smith/Doorstop for children’s poetry, Small Donkey, Blast off is by newcomer Carole Bromley.
It is illustrated by the detailed and charming ink drawings of Cathy Benson, who illustrated most of the children’s poetry published by the late Gerard Benson.
There’s a poem for every mood in this book – warm, funny, exploring many of the concerns pertaining to primary children, it feels like a hug.
Suitable for younger readers round the fire with mum and dad or for older primary readers on their own.
Here’s poem from the mix to judge for yourselves!
DIY Zoo Poem
I went to the zoo and looked in a cage,
Beware of these tigers. They get in a —-
I went to the zoo and looked in the pool.
Not a fish in sight, I felt such a —-
I went to visit the elephant house.
nothing in there, just a little grey —–
I followed a sign This way to the apes.
not a monkey around to eat my ——
I nagged and nagged to see a giraffe
but my father said You’re having a —–
they’re all fast asleep like the chimpanzees
and the sloths and koalas up in the —–
and the Emperor Penguins in their box
but the owls and the bats and the arctic —
are all wide awake cos they think it’s night,
so whatever you do, don’t switch on the —–
© Carole Bromley 2017
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