Salt Kids

Brand new site about children's poetry is here http://saltpublishing.com/kids/. Find out what you can learn about children's poetry and how to teach it, read it and write it.

I was at the 'Poetry Summit' meeting in London yesterday. I came away much more hopeful about the state of children's poetry publishing. The summit is a group of publishers, educationalists, arts funders, literacy organisations, retailers and others who feel strongly about the need for more poetry for children.

I'll be leading a workshop at this year's UKLA International Conference in Winchester with the poet Roger Stevens, funded by Macmillan, on behalf of the Poetry Summit. We will be having some fun with poetry and I'll be briefly explaining the work of the summit.