A Children’s Charivari
I have begun to put together an anthology of poems for children. I’m willing to bet that most of you can still recite several that you learned in your childhood. Poetry is very important for the development of language, especially
A Spot Of Bizarre Bird Spotting
The poems that I write fall into many different styles and genres. I prefer to write verses that rhyme and scan, but also write free-form poems occasionally. It rather depends upon the subject.It seems extraordinary to me that 80% of
The Beginnings Of A Fairytale Adventure
About a quarter of the 1,300 poems that I have written over the last four years are for children. They fall into various groups: poems about animals, poems about children, poems that are variants of famous children’s rhymes, poems featuring
Writing Listening To Mother Came From My Medical Career
I spent 40 years working with children, most of them as a consultant paediatrician.Children adapt to illness far more quickly than adults and frequently have a better sense of what’s appropriate for them than their parents. However, listening to their
