Poetry Prompts All sorts of ways to start a poem from Joseph Coelho

by Coelho, Joseph; Birkett, Georgie; Quartey, Amanda; Oliyko, Grasya; Wang, Viola

• ISBN13: 9780711285125
• ISBN10: 0711285128
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-17
• Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions

Summary

*Everymom Best Book for Early Reading*

A compendium of poetry prompts from Joseph Coelho (Children's Laureate 2022-2024).

Each fun and engaging prompt for writing a poem helps children discover how to write poems and then read them out loud. This is a book to build confidence and literacy skills through channeling children's imaginations. 

This is a book for the whole family to enjoy, bright, cheerful but cool illustrations will appeal to children of all primary ages.

Author Biography

Joseph Coelho is an award winning poet and performer from London, although he now lives by the sea. In 2019 he won the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award for If All the World Were which has been translated into 10 languages. He has been long-listed for The Carnegie Children's Award with his poetry collection 'Overheard In A Tower Block', which was also shortlisted for the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award and Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards. He won the 2015 CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award with his debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules. His debut Picture Book, Luna Loves Library Day was voted one of the nations favourite picture books by a survey led by World Book Day. His other poetry books include How To Write Poems and A Year Of Nature Poems .

He has written plays for companies including: Soho Theatre, Polka Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre, Theatre Royal York, Oily Cart and The Spark Children's Festival to name a few. 

Joseph has been a guest poet on Cbeebies Rhyme Rocket, Radio 4's Poetry Playtime and Front Row. He is the presenter of BBC's Teach Poetry (Oct 2018) and features in DiscoveryEDUK's Poetry Curriculum

Amanda Quartey is an illustrator based in the UK. At the age of 14 she moved to Ghana and studied art, and later returned to the UK to study Graphic Design. She has worked on a variety of published projects.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prompt 1: A Notebook of Your Own
Prompt 2: One Word Poems
Prompt 3: I Am Poem
Prompt 4: Fun with Rhymes
Prompt 5: Take Your Pen on a Journey
Prompt 6: Onomatopoeia
Prompt 7: Diminuendo Poems
Prompt 8: Black-Out Poems
Prompt 9: Bug Poem
Prompt 10: Sounds of the Environment
Prompt 11: Halloween Poem
Prompt 12: Ways to Describe Colors
Prompt 13: Simile Hunt
Prompt 14: Poems to be Read Fast
Prompt 15: Writing on Rocks
Prompt 16: Turning Similes into Metaphors
Prompt 17: Emotion Poems
Prompt 18: My Favorite Food
Prompt 19: Reading Aloud in Different Voices
Prompt 20: Objects with Voices
Prompt 21: Whispering Poems
Prompt 22: Haikus
Prompt 23: Pancake Day
Prompt 24: Tongue Twisters
Prompt 25: World Refugee Day
Prompt 26: Easter Triolets
Prompt 27: Repeating a Line
Prompt 28: Found Poems
Prompt 29: Dance Poetry
Prompt 30: Recipe Poems
Prompt 31: Make Believe Animals
Prompt 32: Photo Poetry
Prompt 33: Renga Poems
Prompt 34: Heart Poems
Prompt 35: Animal Voices
Prompt 36: Abecedarius
Prompt 37: Christmas
Prompt 38: New Year’s Resolution
Prompt 39: A Poet-Tree
Prompt 40: Plastic Pollution
Prompt 41: Homophones