The Children's Poetry Summit is a UK Network of individuals and organisations actively interested in poetry for children.
The Children's Poetry Summit
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Attie Lime: Lighting the Spark childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/05/28/a...
Rhiannon Oliver: Lights, Camera - Poetry! childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/04/09/r...
Andrea Reece: Books for Keeps - Taking Poetry for Children Seriously childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/05/21/a...
Penny Thomas - A Profile childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/04/30/h...
Sean Taylor: The CLiPPA Prize List and the Importance of Poetry for Children childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/04/16/s...
Marilyn Singer: Not Just the Facts - Nonfiction Poetry childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/04/23/m...
Rhiannon Oliver: Lights, Camera - Poetry! childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/04/09/r...
Pie Corbett: Observing and Capturing Experience childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/05/14/p...
Penny Thomas - A Profile childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/04/30/h...
Mark Bird: Finding Solace Through Poetry childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/06/11/m...
The Children's Poetry Summit
The Children's Poetry Summit
A year ago, Air India flight AI171 crashed, killing all but one of the passengers and crew. The morning after, our headteacher at Barlby Primary School asked the Early Years team to meet him as soo…
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 o…
At the end of a recent school visit, a teacher showed me videos of children outside in the drizzle, performing poems they had created themselves that morning. She told me that during their forest s…
Who are you and which publishing house do you work for? Penny Thomas, I’m the editor at Firefly Press children’s and YA publisher. How long have you been editing poetry for children and how many ch…
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. …
Brandford Boase Award 2024 Books for Keeps has been taking children’s literature seriously since its launch in March 1980 and that includes poetry written for children. It might seem unnecessary to…
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 wha…
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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 o…
Who are you and which publishing house do you work for? Penny Thomas, I’m the editor at Firefly Press children’s and YA publisher. How long have you been editing poetry for children and how many ch…
