Poetry Prompts

Joseph Coelho is an award-winning author and former Waterstones Children’s Laureate. He won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for Writing with The Boy Lost in the Maze and the CLPE CLiPPA Poetry Award with his début poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules. His picture books include If All the World Were . . ., illustrated by Allison Colpoys, which won the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award and has been translated into over 10 languages, and the critically acclaimed Luna Loves series, illustrated by Fiona Lumbers, which has sold over 450,000 copies. His poetry titles also include All Poems Aloud, created for World Book Day. He is an admired performer and broadcaster – a guest poet on CBeebies and Radio 4, and presenter for the BBC’s Teach Poetry – and has written plays for Soho Theatre, Polka Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre and more. Visit him at his website: www.thepoetryofjosephcoelho.com/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.

“Discover 50 ways to write and perform a poem with Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho. A great resource for both home and in the classroom with illustrations from four artists.”

• IntroductionPrompt 1: A Notebook of Your OwnPrompt 2: One Word PoemsPrompt 3: I Am PoemPrompt 4: Fun with RhymesPrompt 5: Take Your Pen on a JourneyPrompt 6: OnomatopoeiaPrompt 7: Diminuendo PoemsPrompt 8: Black-Out PoemsPrompt 9: Bug PoemPrompt 10: Sounds of the EnvironmentPrompt 11: Halloween PoemPrompt 12: Ways to Describe ColoursPrompt 13: Simile HuntPrompt 14: Poems to be Read FastPrompt 15: Writing on StonesPrompt 16: Turning Similes into MetaphorsPrompt 17: Emotion PoemsPrompt 18: My Favourite FoodPrompt 19: Reading Aloud in Different VoicesPrompt 20: Objects with Voices