Award-winning poet Lara Saguisag introduces her Personal View, written for PaperTigers last year, with the rather unpromising line:
I must confess: as a child I didn’t like poetry very much.
That perception might have continued had she not been blown away by listening to poet Valerie Bloom - read Lara’s article, where she muses on this transformation and “The Many Possibilities of Children’s Poetry“.
I have yet to lay my hands on a copy of Lara’s Children of Two Seasons: Poems for Young People (Anvil, 2007) so instead, as we in the north of England move towards sharp, chilly mornings, I direct you to the poem “Frost” by Valerie Bloom - and make sure you listen to Valerie’s own exquisite reading of it too. It’s taken from Valerie’s The World is Sweet (Bloomsbury, 2001).
I’m not sure where this week’s Poetry Friday round-up is taking place - when I found out, I’ll update the link…