This engaging book supports teachers and learners in developing poetry writing skills through creative, hands-on activities. Ideal for primary classrooms, it encourages children to explore language, experiment with poetic forms, and build confidence in self-expression.

How to Write Poems is packed with exciting activities to get your pen flowing! Make poems out of leaves, carve out a mud poem, go on an outdoors simile hunt, and play poetry games in the playground.

Whether you already write poems, you’ve never written before, or you’re not even sure what a poem is – this is the book for you. Full of useful tips and starting points, How to Write Poems will make you chuckle, make you think, and inspire you to write your own poetry.

Join popular poet Joseph Coelho as he explores a mind-boggling selection of poetry: from laughable limericks to poetic puns, and from ridiculous rhymes to silly sibilance. Pick up this book, grab a pen, and get going!

• Paperback book with 144 pages

• Suitable for ages 5 years and above

• Written by Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Matt Robertson

• Focuses on poetry writing and language play

• Published by Bloomsbury Publishing