Joseph Coelho is urging mums and dads to not only read poetry to their kids, but get them writing it too. “I would absolutely encourage parents to try and read poetry to children at bedtime ...

Each of the first 6 programmes profiles a different contemporary children’s poet who ... while they are completing work on poems; to stimulate creative writing: pupils could pick two or three ...

Award-winning performance poet, author and former Children’s Laureate Joseph ... them by heart recognise different forms of poetry and use similar writing as models to create imaginative poems ...