Shortlisted for CLiPPA 2015

by Rachel Rooney

These succinct poems, sometimes darkly humorous and incorporating delicious wordplay, are lessons in how economy of words can lead the imagination to soar. The collection explores a thought-provoking range of different perspectives, with both humorous and more poignant poems each examining a range of emotions and feelings.
Rachel Rooney was the winner of the CLPE Poetry Award in 2012, for her collection The Language of Cat and Other Poems.

See the five things Rachel wishes she'd known about poetry before she started writing it here

Apropriate for age group: Years 3 and 4