The last 24 hours have been a whirlwind I’m over the moon to receive the Clippa Poetry Award 2015 it’s a great honour. http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jul/16/clpe-childrens-poetry-award-2015-winner The… Read More »Winning the Clippa Poetry Award! Eeeeek!
http://youtu.be/S_txb_C2PlU “Oh my god! I got 122000 points” The year four boy shrieked to a friend on a competing table with the same excitement normally… Read More »Points and poems
A day of poetry at The Jerwood. Students hunted out individual elements in collages and colllections in works of art, drew them, labelled them and… Read More »Kids have a natural propensity for poetry
It’s been a full weekend of poem submissions and play editing and getting used to the idea that my debut collection is, as of friday… Read More »The Werewolf is out! And is book of the week on www.booksforkeeps.co.uk!
Teachers! Educators! Poets! Teachers! Writers! How do you spell ONOMATOPOEIA? Here’s a way to remember not just how to spell it, but also what it… Read More »ONOMATOPOEIA!?
So I got a great package the other day… The advance copy of my debut collection of poetry for children ‘Werewolf Club Rules’ it’s wonderful… Read More »Werewolves and Outdoor Learning
The images for my debut Poetry collection WEREWOLF CLUB RULES (out 14th August) have been coming in from illustrator/paper engineer and author John O’leary thick… Read More »You Look Like A Rainbow
Saw a copy of my poem in Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers. MAKE IT BIGGER EILEEN features in Green Glass Beads – Poems for Girls. Ed.… Read More »What do you write for?