Every Wednesday I am hosting a poem video from a famous poet! Come here every Wednesday at 5 for Rhyme Time Fun at 5! Here is the first video – Puffin – Poem by me, animation by me and my husband Pete. You can buy a book of animal shape poems below, sent to you signed: Apes to Zebras – An A-Z of animal shape poems! A beautiful, hardback oversized book – an A-Z of animal poems in the shape of the animal. Printed in two colours. Normally 14:99. Includes postage and packing. £14.00 Click here to purchase ..read more

Do you know about my book, shaping the world? It’s full of poems about people who have positively shaped our world – it includes heroes all children should know about, in a shape poem, with fun facts and quotes and a bio on opposing pages. Featuring Emmeline Pankhurst, Nelson Mandela, William Shakespeare, Ludvig Van Beethoven, Florence Nightingale, Greta Thunberg – 20 female and 20 male heroes, all packed into a poem to make learning fun. Here’s a sample: Rosa Parks by Kate Wakeling And here are the facts on the opposite page: If you’d like a copy of this beautiful, foiled, oversized paper ..read more

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden ..read more

I just received notice that BBC Radio in the South West will be featuring my poem on Upload this week – you can hear it on Thursday evening on BBC Radio Gloucestershire & BBC Radio Wiltshire from 6pm, and from 7pm on BBC Radio Bristol & BBC Radio Somerset! On Saturday evening it will be on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset between 6-8pm. You can listen on your radio or via the free BBC Sounds app. If you have written a poem, you too can feature on BBC Upload – simply upload it on your local BBC upload page and if it catches their ..read more

I once had a giant poetry jigsaw made for a poetry exhibition – and children really enjoyed making the puzzle and then reading the poem that appeared. JoArts made this fantastic jigsaw for me – but if you are artistic you can buy already made large jigsaw pieces from Etsy – here and here, for example. Mine is double-sided – the other side has another poem on! You can make this in different colours so it’s easier to make the puzzles distinguishable from each other, or make them similar colours so the children really have to think! Make poems important and fun in as many ways as you can think o ..read more

I know about these lovely, OUP Readerful series poetry books because I have poems in two of them. The Sea’s Song (the title incidentally taken from my poem) and Wiggle Wonderful are for children in reception and primary 1. In this poetry series there is also Moonlight Shine (for year 2, primary 3), Rising into Sunlight (for year 3, primary 4), and Forgetting How to Fall (for year 4, primary 5). The books have been compiled by the lovely poet Catherine Baker, who also writes wonderful haiku. Each of the above two books is beautifully illustrated in colour throughout- Wiggle Wonderful by Katie ..read more

I have been busy making animated versions of some of my shape poems, helped by my film editor husband. It has been great fun – let me know what you think! This poem is in Apes to Zebras, an A-Z of Shape Poems, by Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson and Roger Stevens. Available here: Apes to Zebras – an A-Z of Animal Shape Poems A beautiful, hardback oversized book – an A-Z of animal poems in the shape of the animal. Printed in two colours. Normally 14:99. Includes postage and packing. £14.00 Click here to purchase ..read more

©Colin WestThere is an extra day this year, this week, to enjoy poetry – so thank you to all the poets who have sent marvellous leap year poems! Happy Leap Year! The first one is by the really ridiculously talented rhymer, Colin West, who also supplied the wonderful illustration at the top – thank you, Colin! February the 29th An extra day to make up rhymes We have, this very month! (I’ve tried to do so, many times, But haven’t managed oneth.) © Colin West This one is by Jacqueline Shirtleff – thank you Jacqueline, and for suggesting this! Leap YearOne extra day watching TV!One extra day on ..read more

I’ve been having such fun trying to think of ways of animating the animals in my shape poems. I love puffins, we are so lucky to have them in the UK! I hope you enjoy the animation ..read more

Today I’m posting a shape poem from Being Me, Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings. The nightingale is a bird that does things a little bit differently, and that is what we love him for! If you would like to find ways of chatting to your children about their worries, feelings etc, then why not get a copy of Being Me – the first poetry book of its type. Send me an email at poetliz @ mac. com with your address and if you would like a dedication, let me know who to dedicate it to! Being Me, Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings, + p&p UK A unique and wonderfully illustrated ..read more