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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Poetry Inspired by Images and Objects

There are many ways pictures and photographs can be conscripted to support the writing of poetry. Allow me to share a few ideas with you: Old photographs are a great source of inspiration. Cynthia Rylant explored this idea with great success in her book 'Something Permanent' where she employed the Depression era photographs of Walker Evans to add a new voice to the starkness to the lives of people experienced under extreme circumstances. I have used this strategy to spark many individual poems. In ' I Bet There's No Broccoli On The Moon,' I used a photo I had taken in 2004 while living in New York to inspire a poem. The poem was based on a story related by a friend who grew up in New York. I regularly combined poetry and pictures in my writer's notebook, drawing on inspiration from the photograph and my personal memories. We can also utilize existing cartoons and illustrations to create ekphrastic poems. I frequently use the illustrations of Jim Pavlidis to co...

Peter Dixon -Teabag Poem

Today I'm highlighting the poetry of Peter Dixon. Peter Dixon was not just a poet. He was a performer, educationalist and artist. He grew up in London during WW2, and as a boy his schooling was far from successful. He struggled with spelling and the understanding of word, form and grammar, so he tended to write secretly at home, drawing and writing of things largely ignored by schools. Despite this difficult phase of his life, Peter eventually became a school teacher and then a senior lecturer in education. It often mystified him as to how all of this came to pass. As a teacher, he strived to be unbiased and did not neglect the children who experienced learning challenges. Peter Dixon became a full time children’s writer and educational consultant. His first book was published in 1978. Whilst living in Winchester, Hampshire, with his family, he contributed to over 100 poetry anthologies and had seven collections of his own work published including Grow Your O...

Poetry Friday 'Storm On The Island' Seamus Heaney

Given the fact that we recently celebrated St Patrick's Day, it seems appropriate that I take this opportunity to continue the Irish focus and recognize one of Ireland's leading literary figures... Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland in 1939 and died in 2013. He became a multi award winning poet. His first collection of poems, 'Death of a Naturalist' appeared in 1966 and helped to establish Heaney as one of the major poets of the 20th century. From that first anthology, I have chosen 'Storm On The Island.' This poem tells us about the stoic resistance of people and structures to an incoming storm. The island is not named. Poetic scholars believe this is a poem that can be taken literally, as a monologue on the life and attitude of island people facing a storm, or it can be understood as a metaphor of political struggle on the island of Ireland. Heaney knew both worlds. The poems of this first collection are grounded in the soil...

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