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...

Opposite Poems

O pp o s ite P oem s In his book, ' How To Write Poetry,' Paul Janeczko presents the idea of opposite poems. Paul suggests they could also be referred to as antonym poems. This is wordplay and it's fun to try. Here are some examples Paul provides to help us see very clearly how these short little poems work. I think the opposite of chair Is sitting down with nothing there What is the opposite of kind? A goat that butts you from behind Paul Janeczko You will notice the poems are written in rhyming couplets. They can be extended so long as you remember to write in couplets. Paul shows us how this is done. What is the opposite of new? Stale gum that's hard to chew A hot-dog roll as hard as rock Or a soiled and smelly forgotten sock You might notice that some of Paul's opposite Poems begin with a question. The remainder of the poem answer the question posed. Opposite poems are a challenge, but it is a challenge worth trying. N...

Powerful Poetry, 'Refugees' by Brian Bilston

This week, Poetry Friday is hosted by Janice Scully @ Salt City Verse where Janice shares some original words and offers us a taste of Thomas Carlyle to ponder. I encourage you to join a host of poets from all around the globe and visit Janice's page... Almost two years to the day, I wrote a post featuring the poem 'Refugees' by Brian Bilston. The poem was included in Brian's first book of poetry, 'You Took The Last Bus Home.' A very powerful Reverso poem and technically brilliant. A Reverso poem can be read from top to bottom or bottom to top. It will often express opposite opinions depending on which way you read it. Such poems really make us think. A Reverso poem is like a picture turned upside down, a frowning face upended to reveal a smiling one. The poem read in reverse, contradicts itself with an opposing message. In 'Refugee' Brian Bilston focuses on a societal issue that tends to polarize feelings and the opposing views are clearly in eviden...

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