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I went to the third 'Poetry Summit' - related meeting today. The Poetry Summit is a gathering of poetry-minded people, concerned to promote the publication and reading of more children's poetry. Representation from the Poetry Society, the Book Trust and The Poetry-Book Society and Macmillan Publishers today in London.

News that The Poetry Society has won funding to organise poets to go into University Teacher Education programmes and do days with students and tutors on poetry in primary schools. This should start in universities in a year or two. The brief is to show how poetry can be brought into schools across the curriculum.

The Poetry Society is also celebrating 100 years of their organisation with their 100 Poets in 100 Schools programme. Each of their poets goes into 10 primary schools. This starts in October. LEAs are organising which schools when.

If you have yet to watch Poetry Pie http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/poetrypie/ the time is right! This is a very popular children's programme with its own web site.