{"id":14921,"date":"2022-10-05T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=14921"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:45:48","slug":"childrens-laureate-joseph-coelho-to-launch-nationwide-poetry-campaign-on-national-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/childrens-laureate-joseph-coelho-to-launch-nationwide-poetry-campaign-on-national-poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Laureate Joseph Coelho to launch nationwide poetry campaign on National Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The newly appointed Waterstones Children\u2019s Laureate (2022-2024), Joseph Coelho (pictured left<\/em>), has revealed details about the first campaign in his role as the foremost representative of children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n

The award-winning performance poet, playwright and children\u2019s author will launch \u2018Poetry Prompts\u2019, in partnership with BookTrust, on National Poetry Day tomorrow marking the beginning of an epic celebration of the power of poetry in all its forms. Through the campaign, Coelho aims to break down the fear often associated with reading and writing and show why poems are for everyone, alongside the joy that writing, reading and performing poetry can bring to our lives.<\/p>\n

National Poetry Day also marks publication of Coelho\u2019s latest collection Blow a Kiss, Catch a Kiss: Poems to share with little ones (Anderson Press, 3+), and his YA verse novel The Boy Lost in the Maze (Otter-Barry Books).<\/p>\n

Coelho said: \u201cPoetry Prompts is my invitation to the nation, young and old, to become poets. We turn to poetry at weddings, funerals and births because it goes beyond mere words and translates the soul. But there is baggage associated with poetry that I want everyone to put down \u2013 to allow everyone to reclaim the birth right of poet. So often I\u2019ve met children and adults scared to put pen to paper, terrified of \u2018getting it wrong\u2019 \u2013 this has repercussions in all aspects of life. I want to show everyone that poetry is for them, that we can enjoy the rules and break the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

From National Poetry Day onwards, Coelho will share a weekly \u2018Poetry Prompt\u2019 video to inspire the nation, young and old, to write poems and to become poets. Each video will see Coelho exploring a different subject or technique \u2013 such as similes, onomatopoeia and figurative language \u2013 and showing how this can be brought to life in fun and engaging ways through poetry.<\/p>\n

The first \u2018Poetry Prompt\u2019 will tie in with the theme of this year\u2019s National Poetry Day \u2013 the environment \u2013 and will see Coelho creating a new poem inspired by the sounds of the environment, and showing the freedom that comes with poetry having no rules \u2013 \u2018it\u2019s your poem and you\u2019re the boss\u2019 \u2013 with the suggestion that poems can even be written on a leaf fallen from a tree, bark of a branch, or a stone.<\/p>\n

The bitesize video series \u2013 each lasting under ten minutes \u2013 will be shared on the BookTrust website each Monday morning, with teachers encouraged to share during registration time to help inspire students to pick up a pen and start writing their own poem. BookTrust, the UK\u2019s largest children\u2019s reading charity and who manage the Laureateship, are set to distribute a Poetry Prompts poster to almost 20,000 primary schools to help inspire children to take part in the campaign and create their own poems.<\/p>\n

BookTrust and Joseph Coelho will also be collaborating with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), who are the National Poetry Centre for Primary Schools, to create a host of resources to accompany the Poetry Prompts, which will be available to download on the BookTrust website and free for use in schools, libraries and at home to encourage further learning and exploration of poetic form and literacy. These resources will be accessible to everyone and will encourage children to read and perform Joe\u2019s poetry and be inspired to come up with ideas for their own poems. Coelho has been a patron of the CLPE since 2019.<\/p>\n

Diana Gerald, CEO of BookTrust, added: \u201cAt BookTrust we believe all children should be able to enjoy the lifechanging benefits that reading and sharing stories can bring. Poetry can be a powerful gateway into storytelling and can help children to develop their creativity, imagination and inspire them to read, write or perform their own stories to express a whole range of emotions or topics that they are interested in. We\u2019re incredibly proud to support Joseph Coelho on his mission to break the misconceptions about poetry and hope children and families are inspired to celebrate poetry in all its forms and use it to find their own voice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newly appointed Waterstones Children\u2019s Laureate (2022-2024), Joseph Coelho (pictured left), has revealed details about the first campaign in his role as the foremost representative of children\u2019s literature. The award-winning performance poet, playwright and children\u2019s author will launch \u2018Poetry Prompts\u2019, in partnership with BookTrust, on National Poetry Day tomorrow marking the beginning of an epic …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,145,44,4,174,97,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-educational-event","category-inclusion","category-literacy","category-news","category-poetry","category-support-materials","category-teaching-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}