Have fun craf ting your own poems

Kate Wakeling on why wild ideas make great poems.

Poet Kate Wakeling is the author of A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop – Poems to Have Fun With! which won the Poetry prize at The Week Junior Book Awards in 2024. In the run-up to World Poetry Day on 21 March, Wakeling tells The Week Junior, “Poems are like a factory for adventure and imagination.” Here, she shares some fantastic tips on how to create your own brilliant poems. Let your imagination run wild “To start a poem, the freer you feel, the better. That’s when ideas can really run wild,” says the author. Wakeling starts by making lots of messy notes, jotting down words and phrases that she likes the sound of and firing up her imagination. She tells us that you can write a poem about anything…

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