Children’s Poetry

 

1982

Eric the Punk Cat

Children’s book, illustrated by Roger Wade Walker, published by Hodder and Stoughton.

 

1984

Eric The Punk Cat

Selected for the Book Marketing Council’s Children’s Choice and published in paperback by Magnet.

 

1986

The Phantom Lollipop Lady

Poems for children published by Methuen.


Click here to read ‘The Phantom Lollipop Lady’

Click here to read ‘Early Spring’

Click here to read ‘Square Meal’

Click here to read ‘Noble Jones from Wallasey, the bravest cat in the world’

 

1987

Eric and Frankie in Las Vegas

Children’s book published by Hodder and Stoughton.

 

1989

Rhinestone Rhino

Poems for children published by Methuen. Illustrated by Tony Ross.


Click here to read ‘Poets’

Click here to read ‘Rhinestone Rhino’

Click here to read ‘The Dark’

 

1990

Box

Poems for teenagers published by Mammoth/Teens


Click here to read ‘Save the Children’

Click here to read ‘Marguerite…’

Click here to read ‘Some Other Guy’

Click here to read ‘Librarian’

 

1990

The Postman’s Palace

For children published by Methuen,

 

1993

Dinner with the Spratts, and Other Poems

Published by Methuen. Illustrated by Tony Ross.


Click here to read ‘Skipping Song’

Click here to read ‘Holly Pie’

Click here to read ‘H 25’

Click here to read ‘Bob’s Your Uncle’

Click here to read ‘Short Poem’

 

1998

The World’s Your Lobster

Selected poems for children published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books.


Click here to read ‘Song of the Earth’

Click here to read ‘Best Friends’

Click here to read ‘A Poem for my Cat’

 

1998

Robocat

New poems for children published by Bloomsbury
Children’s Books


Click here to read ‘March Poem’

Click here to read ‘Refugee’

Click here to read ‘Teacher’s Pet’

Click here to read ‘Robocat’

Click here to read ‘Bedtime Story’

 

2001

Spooky Poems

Published by Bloomsbury, London.


Click here to read ‘Skeleton Song’

Click here to read ‘Claustrophobia’

Click here to read ‘The Haunted Disco’