Welcome to Australian Children’s Poetry website.
This site is dedicated to showcasing contemporary Australian children’s poets and their work. Most poets have included their contact details if you wish to engage them to present at your school or writers’ festival.
We do not publish collections or anthologies; nor do we offer an assessment or editing service. However, the site presents a Poem of the Day; so, if you are an Australian poet and would like to submit your children’s poem for consideration, you are more than welcome to do so.
We are happy to accept information about children’s poetry activities and events in Australia and overseas, poetry links, competitions, interviews with poets or publishers, and relevant articles.
Australian Children’s Poetry would like to acknowledge and thank the Illawarra South-Coast CBCA
http://nsw.cbca.org.au/pages/illawarrasouthcoast.html for its generous donation towards making this blog site a reality. Other individuals have also very generously given donations for which I thank them: they are Anne Bell, Dianne Cook, Margaret Pearce, Jennifer Erlanger, Stephen Whiteside, Pat Simmons, Teena Raffa-Mulligan, Janeen Brian, Wendy Blaxland, Dianne Ellis and Katherine Gallagher.
Submissions and enquiries to Jeanie Axton at poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
This blog site was designed and constructed by Helen Ross.
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
Please remember that all articles and poems are copyrighted. As such please acknowledge the poet if you read out the poems to your class or make copies for class use. Any copies made need to be included on your CAL (Copyright) records.
Congratulations on the new web-site, Di. It looks fantastic! (Well done Helen, too.)
Thanks Stephen. If you would like me to review your new poetry book, please send copy to PO Box 262, Unanderra NSW 2526 and I’ll post the review on the site.
Good job Helen
I Know Right!? Awesome!!
Thanks so much for your support, Stephen. There’s more great material to come, too!
Brilliant work, Di xx
Looks splendid:-)
Thanks Sally. Don’t forget to send an relevant material any time.
Congratulations Di, and Helen. Long may it prosper.
Sorry about delay getting to you, Jonathon. It is so good of you to support the site. There are now over 4,000 hits (in one week).
So excited. Well done Di. xxx
Congratulations from all the CBCA NSW Branch. Keep up the good work with inspiring kids to love poetry.
Thanks so much indeed for your support of the site, Gail. I’m hoping that the National CBCA will approve my funding application so that I can pay Helen Ross, the patient and wonderful site designer.
Great website, Di. Good luck with it. Splendid idea
Terrific idea and beautifully done, Di! Congratulations.
Stunning – well done Di and Helen! How do you sign up for Poem a Day? i get an adult one, but would enjoy getting one from here, too!
Click on: Follow blog (see right hand side of home page).
This looks great, Di and Helen. Congratulations! What a wonderful resource. The articles are interesting and informative and I’m looking forward to getting to know poets through the interviews.
Thanks so much, Teena! Would you be interested in interviewing a children’s poet of your choice? That would be splendid.
What a wonderful idea! It looks great and should be very useful to all poetry lovers.
Great to have an email of support from you Wendy. Thank you!
Good luck with it, Di!
Thanks Richard. Where are you these days? In Australia or still moving around overseas? I used to enjoy your travel articles but haven’t seen any in a while. Hope you and your family are all well.
Congratulations! What a great idea, and a terrific resource. Am sharing this on the WestWords Facebook page now.
Thanks very much for your congrats, Judith. There were over 4,000 hits in the first week, which shows a lot of interest in Australian children’s poetry. What are you doing these days? Still working out in Western Sydney? Want some poets to run workshops or present readings? All is possible! We had a visit lately from Harry Laing who is a marvellous poetry performer (and writer of poetry!)
Looking forward to sharing the site with young poets who write with me at Melrose Public School. Thank you Di!
This is wonderful news, Yvonne. Check out the poetry links as there are lots there of interest to children and their teachers. Di
Hooray, thanks and good wishes, Di and Helen.
Thanks so much for your support!
Love it, Di – I always lead my students through a unit on Poetry, you have it all in one spot for us, thank you. I will be able to put a link on our Oliver home page.
Wonderful news, Sue. If you send an email to me at dibates@outlook.com I can send a list of opportunities for young writers.
What a wonderful gift to children everywhere. Ex-pat kids now can keep in touch with their heritage – at last! Don’t forget – out there – to include the children!
Robyn Youl
Hadn’t even thought of ex pats looking in on the blog. A wonderful readership indeed!
What a wonderful website, Di and Helen – a rich resource for Australian poets and their young readers. The School Magazine will include this in our tweets and our e-newsletter. Best wishes to the website and all who sail in her!
Wish there was a website also for Australian children’s playwrights, but I don’t know them, except for you and Bill. Is it something you might think about? It would be a wonderful asset, wouldn’t it? Thanks to all at School Magazine for their support, it’s much appreciated.
A great website, long overdue. Congratulations Di on being the one to put in the work and knowhow.
You are wonderful dear friend, Ann. x x
Congratulations on seeing your vision shine through. Best of luck with it Di.
Thanks for your support, Melissa, it’s much appreciated.
Love what you’ve done Di and Helen – a really brilliant idea.
Thanks, Jackie. In less than 2 weeks we’ve had over 5,500 hits on the site so it seems that it was well worthwhile.
This is wonderful, great work!
Thanks for your support, Alex!
Did my e-letter with my few poems get to you?
No, sorry. Please send them to dibates@outlook.com and I will reply as soon as I receive them.
Finally found you again ….congratulations Di – this is enterprising and has already caught “alight”
Hello Di,
Just looking around the site, it’s blossoming – with lots of innovative, enjoyable poems and good advice. And your reviews are spot on.
Thanks too for publishing my poems from time to time.
Katherine
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Di,Thankyou to the literature world. I don’t think you are leaving work just beginning.
Thanks Deborah. I’m still casting my beady eyes on the Poems of the Day and writing away, mostly for Buzz Words, my online magazine for those in the children’s book industry.
Looks great, Teena, Helen & Dianne. Congratulations!
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Hi, I work for Total Girl magazine (a very popular mag aimed at young girls aged six-13), and I am looking to source a young female poet within this age bracket to interview for an upcoming issue. Could you possibly help put me in touch with one of these young creatives? Cheers, Laura
I will see what I can do?
Thankyou for your interest
I have sent details to a young girl who sent in poems
She may contact you
Her name is Scarlet
Thankyou
Jeanie
Looking forward to all the poems. Thanks 🙂
Hi,
I have 7y.o girl that quite surprising me with her poem. I’m hoping that my limited knowledge on poem wouldn’t be a barrier for her potential.
It will mean the world for her and If we can send you some for a feedback.
Could you please advise me if it is possible?
Thank you,
D
Please send an email to
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Include both your full names and where you live in Australia
Send a sample of her poetry if you like
We can go from there
Thankyou
Jeanie
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Congratulations to all involved in development of this blogsite. Thank you for this invaluable resource and opportunity to practice both writing poetry, and contribute poems for children – Andrew Carter