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Being Me, Poems About Thoughts, Feelings and Worries, by me, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, Otter-Barry Books, is on the CLiPPA 2022 shortlist! The award is given by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award, and is the one every poet would like to win – but the shortlisting is also a huge honour and we are thrilled and very excited. Being Me was written in consultation with leading developmental psychologist Karen Goodall, and is illustrated by Victoria Jane Wheeler. This is what CLPE has to say about it: “A collaborative anthology between three poets and an artist, singing ..read more

Here is a poem for #EmpathyDay2021, from Being Me, Poems About Thoughts Worries and Feelings, my Me, Laura Mucha and Matt Goodfellow, Otter-Barry Books. If you’d like to know more about Empathy Day, head over to https://www.empathylab.uk/ or @EmpathyLabUK. Here’s to all the children – quiet, loud, happy, sad, strong, vulnerable, giggly, naughty, funny- whoever you are, happy empathy day ..read more

Out now, Being Me, Poems About Thoughts Worries and Feelings written by me, Matt Goodfellow and Laura Mucha, Otter-Barry Books, is a book full of poems to support the mental health of young people – especially relevant this week, #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. For our launch we shared some of the poems read by young people – and a lovely job they made of performing them. Here is Sophia, and What to do With Worries by me ..read more

Published by Macmillan I’m very much looking forward to April 1st; not a day I normally think of quite so warmly, as usually that’s the day I am bamboozled and baffplussed by ridiculous statements from otherwise excellent sources. But THIS April the 1st is the publication date of this beautiful book, Shaping the World, the first anthology I have edited. It is full of poems and facts about people who have helped shaped the world, twenty women and twenty men, and each poem is in the shape of its subject. Nearer the time I’ll post a taster of what’s inside! But I am very excited about it ..read more

Hello, I’m Liz – this is my personal website; if you want poetry information, lesson plans, poetry writing ideas, interviews with other poets etc., then please see my other website, Poetry Roundabout. This is poetry information about me, me, me, and also poetry celebrations ..read more

This is from a series of videos we made in 2015 for the theme of Light for NPD. This poem is also about a vision of beauty. She Walks in Beauty, by George Lord Byron, read by people in Bristol who work with light ..read more

We filmed this poem in 2015 for National Poetry Day’s theme of Light – but it fits with Vision beautifully! The wonderful poem Dazzle Dance amazingly performed by Lydia Elisabeth Wild, fire performer ..read more

This poem was filmed as part of a Family Poetry Exhibition for Bristol Poetry Festival, all material for which is still available ..read more

Here’s something a little different – a video without me in! This was filmed a while ago in a different world when poets could get together and we could film them reading poems! This is the wonderful John Dougherty and Pink ..read more