Children's poets perform on YouTube. Including Roger Stevens, Michael Rosen and Steven Herrick. This is a new venture but hopefully will grow. Check it out! CLICK HERE Books for Your Class Review of Latest Children's Poetry Book Releases The Directory of Children's Poets Book a poet or author for your school Classroom Resources Ideas to help you teach poetry Inviting a Poet Into Your School Practical advice from Brian Moses The Poetry Society An excellent resource for everything connected with poetry.  Recommended Books Some of the best poetry and teaching books around.  Foyles Young Poet of the Year Award For teenagers. Details here. Other Websites for Teachers A round-up of Education on the Web. Poetry Challenge A wide range of different poetry subjects and styles How To Write Poems The text of Roger Stevens' book for children aged from seven A book for reluctant readers? Half Term Odds and Ends. Letter from the Caretaker. Roger Stevens writes - As I travelled around the UK visiting schools to perform my poems and give poetry and writing workshops I often wished that there was some way children could publish their poems. It seemed a shame that such wonderful and beautiful poetry and verse could not reach a wider audience. Then it occured to me that the internet was the answer - and I began THE POETRY ZONE. It has now been running for ten years and is receiving around 6000 visitors a week. Clicking on book links will take you to Amazon or Rabbit Press. If you see any books you'd like to buy - please buy them through The Poetry Zone. This is The Poetry Zone's only source of income and helps maintain this site. Please encourage your children to send me their poems. I will publish as many as space permits. If a class is sending poems please try to provide some variety. I like to make The Poetry Zone fun to read and a batch of 20 almost identical poems doesn't really work. The Poetry Gallery is usually updated every two weeks. If you would like to know more about this site or have any constructive comments to make about it I'd love to hear them. E-mail me at roger@pzone.freeserve.co.uk Please send us your brilliant ideas for teaching poetry The Journal of Danny Chaucer (Poet) is guaranteed to be the year's most talked about book for teenagers. This is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - Tuesday June 24th at 2.15 - read by the author. Be sure to tape it for your class. What the Daily Mail said - June 2003 A witty, warm, one boy play read by Roger Stevens. What The Guardian said - May 2002 Novels written in poetic form are big news in the US teenage fiction market, and this home-grown effort is up there with the best. Danny Chaucer is an Adrian Mole without the wimpishness or pomposity, and the gap between Danny's fantasy life and reality is wittily chronicled in a story that follows the thr rhythm of the school year, first love and loss, and all the pains of growing up. Particularly the sledgehammer blow when his best friend goes off with Jenny, the girl of his dreams. Stevens' verse is jaunty, knowing and tart and he gets right inside the dark, dark corners of the adolescent male mind. Although the verse form may take a page or two to get used to, it actually makes this an easier and less daunting book for reluctant readers than the traditional prose novel. What the author says - If you have used this book in your classroom and have found it helpful with reluctant readers - please let me know. I'm currently working on Danny Chaucer 2 and feedback would be very useful. Thanks - Roger Stevens back to top of page and contents