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The Dewey Decimal system puts poetry in the library’s nonfiction section. Yet a lot of people think these genres have nothing in common. Heck, I used to think they had nothing in common. Poetry is lyrical, surprising, heartfelt, sometimes oblique or even obscure. Nonfiction is, uh, just the facts, ma’am.
That’s what I used to believe. But when I began to think ...
I’m fresh from the online announcement of the shortlisted books for the 2026 CLPE Poetry Award 2026 (aka the CLiPPA.) This featured five poems read aloud, and it was a spellbinding selection of what’s best in poetry for children. There was heart in there, inspiration, playfulness, music, and truth. And I’m honoured that my collection of finger rhymes, FIVE LITTLE FRIENDS,...
It was March 2020, and I was in technical rehearsals at The Riverfront Theatre, Newport, readying for opening night, when the theatres, and everything else, were suddenly closed. I had spent much of the previous 16 years working as an actress in theatres like Shakespeare’s Globe and The National Theatre. I’d also been asked to hide in a large wheelie bin outside the ...
Poetry is one of the most democratic art forms we can offer children and young people. It requires no specialist equipment, no perfect spelling and no single “right” answer. Instead, it invites pupils to speak in their own rhythms, in their own languages and from the truths they carry. When we frame poetry through social justice, it becomes a space where identity is affir...