Some Poetry Texts To Ponder- A List

Some Poetry Titles To Ponder

I share this list in no particular order. These titles are from my Poet's Suitcase. I love them all. A lot of them are currently in print, others may be accessible as second hand copies. There's a lot of gold out there...
Maybe you could take this list to a book shop and leave it with them to consider.

Updated January 2020

From The Poet's Suitcase

The Hypnotiser, Michael Rosen

Quick Let’s Get Out of Here, Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen’s Big Book of Bad Things, Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen’s A to Z- The Best Children’s Poetry Selected by Michael Rosen

Untangling Spaghetti, Steven Herrick

Unspun Socks From a Chicken’s Laundry, Spike Milligan

Searching For Hen’s teeth, Poetry From The Search Zone, Alan j Wright

Tadpoles In The Torrens, Poems for young readers, Edited by Jude Aquilina

Mongrel Doggerel, Elizabeth Honey

The Important Book, Margaret Wise- Brown

My Sister’s Hair, Sally Crabtree and Roberta Mathieson

Our Home Is Dirt By Sea, Poems Selected by Dianne Bates

Fire, Jackie French

The Dream of the Thylacine, Margaret Wild

Beach House, Deanna Caswell

Poems To Perform, Julia Donaldson

Touch The Poem, Arnold Adoff and Lisa Desimini

To This Day, Shane Koyczan

You Wait Till I’m Older Than You, Michael Rosen

The Death of the Hat, Poems Selected by Paul Janeczko

In The Swim, Douglas Florian

Insectopedia Douglas Florian

Poetrees, Douglas Florian

Comets, Stars, The Moons and Mars, Douglas Florian

Salting The Ocean, 100 poems by young poets, Naomi Shihab- Nye

Joyful Noise, poems for two voices, Paul Fleischman

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, Valerie Worth

In The Tall Tall Grass, Denise Fleming

Some Things Are Scary, Florence Parry Heide

Imagine A Night, Sarah L Thomson

A is Amazing- Poems About Feelings –Edited by Wendy Cooling

Vivid- Poems and Notes About Colour, Julie Paschkis

The Lost Words, Robert McFarlane

I’m Just No Good At Rhyming, Chris Harris

Colours of Australia, Bronwyn Bancroft

Bananas In My Ears, Michael Rosen

The Dog’s Just Been Sick In The Honda, Colin Thompson

Lost Magic- The Very Best of Brian Moses

I Bet There’s No Broccoli On The Moon, Alan j Wright

What The Poemster Found, Alan j Wright

And finally here is a shot of my ever expanding collection of VERSE Novels.

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Life Cycle -A football poem by Bruce Dawe

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Opposite Poems

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