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There's a lot of excellent poetry out there in Web Land. Here are a few places that you might like to visit. If you find any good websites that Poetry Zone visitors might like - please let us know. 
Kate
Williams Her great new website. Lots of poems and ideas. Go visit! Well...
what are you waiting for? Off you go...
Peter Cole A new, young, funny and very entertaining poet. Go visit now!!! Sue Noyes Anderson presents lots of funny and fun poems from America. Jake the Cake. Check out this "new" poet's work. A great blog from Paul Hughes. Click Here Publish
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by Josie Whitehead The Smelly Welly Tele Show Meet Chik - read poems, puzzles, jokes - be amused, be surprised.... click here! Eric Ode is an American poet building up a great following. He's now had a few poems published in anthologies in the UK and his website has some great children's verse, games to play and lots of fun stuff to do. Check it out at http://www.ericode.com Spend some time with Australia's children's poet Steven Herrick - definitely the only Australian poet I know who supports Brighton and Hove Albion football team. Some excellent poems. http://www.stevenherrick.com.au/
The Magic Nation is great fun. This site for children's poetry features some great David Orme poems as well as the world's first Choose Your Own Adventure Poem. You can submit poems here, too. http://www.magic-nation.com
www.poetryguy.com This site features Ted Scheu (rhymes with shy) - that poetry guy! A lively site with lots of Ted's whacky verse plus a monthly poetry competition for younger kids.
www.gigglepoetry.com Poetry and interviews with poets plus How to write poems and poetry competition for kids up to grade 12. A lively site featuring children's poet Bruce Lansky.
www.poetry4kids.com Kenn Nesbitt comes from Spokane, Washington and writes zany poetry for kids of all ages. His site contains some very funny poems and is well worth a visit.
Andrea's Shavick's Website. Andrea features in The Poetry Zone Interview section but you can find out more about her on her own website - as well as read more of her great poems. http://www.shavick.com/
Potato Hill Poetry - An interesting site to learn more about poetry (for kids and teachers), and a place to get your poems published. http://www.potatohill.com
Pat Hubbell is an American children's poet. Her newest book is CITY KIDS, a collection of very short poems about kids in the city, published by Marshall Cavendish. Pat's new book, BLACK EARTH, GOLD SUN, a collection of poems about plants and gardening, will be out very soon. Visit her lively site at - www.kidspoet.com Imaginesongs is the site of talented children's poet Joe Thompson. It includes original humorous poetry, songs, writing oriented games such as a magnetic word wall and madlibs, as well scripts for skits and fables. Definitely worth a visit. www.imaginesongs.com
Find Poetry features many more children's poetry sites, rated by visitors. An excellent source of more places to visit.
The Potty Poets website features books by The King's England Press. They specialise in all things yucky, smelly and generally disgusting. These books are all bestsellers in the UK. If you want to find out more about Andrew Collett's Electric Knickers or why VIKINGS DON'T WEAR PANTS then this is the site for you. www.pottypoets.com Fizzy Funny Fuzzy Poetry is a lovely colourful site for our younger poets. Lots of funny poems, too. Go to www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com Andrew Collett Take a look at Andrew's new site. There are lots of very nice poems for nice, neat, tidy, well-behaved and quiet children. But there are even more nasty, horrid, disgusting poems for everyone else. Andrew was one of the Poetry Zone's first guest poets - and he's one of the funniest, too. Visit his great site today! Go to www.poetry39.freeserve.co.uk Celia Warren A cool jazzy site with contributions from children as well as lots of poems and information about one of our favourite poets www.celiawarren.co.uk Damian Harvey Find out more about children's writer and poet Damian Harvey. Get to know him before he becomes incredibly famous. Then you can say - I knew him before he was incredibly famous. Stories From the Web. A fun-packed site. Stories, poems and competitions. Also an interview with JK Rowling and an interview with Jacqueline Wilson. Check it out. www.storiesfromtheweb.org 
Prose-n-Poetry Prose, poetry, writing contests and more. A community of poets and friends. You can post poems, stories, recipes, and books. Give and receive helpful comments. Enter and create contests. Over 15,000 stories, poems and recipes. I 'm Not a Brat! Arnot McCallum is one of Canada's best-loved kids' poets. Check this out. Here's a sample - Penelope Children's Poetry Bookshelf. An excellent site. Lots of fun things to do, the latest news about poetry books - and another great place to send your poems. Visit it at once. http://www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk/ Here's a great site from a new young poet - Marinela Reka. It contains "Poetry written by myself since the age of 6." It includes Short, Scary, Funny, Family ,Friendship, Seasons, Animals, Haiku, Cute, Limericks, Mask, Teen, Love, Heart Broken, War, and Imagination poems - and more besides. http://marinelareka.com/ PS4K
The website of new young children's poet Mark Bird. Check
it out and see what you think. Many thanks to Nicole Anne Braganza for her help in compiling these sites |
