Poetry Friday – Lara Saguisag and Valerie Bloom
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Award-winning poet Lara Saguisag introduces her Personal View, written for PaperTigers last year, with the rather unpromising line:
I must confess: as a child I didn’t like poetry very much.
That perception might have continued had she not been blown away by listening to poet Valerie Bloom – read Lara’s article, where she muses on this transformation and “The Many Possibilities of Children’s Poetry“.
I have yet to lay my hands on a copy of Lara’s Children of Two Seasons: Poems for Young People (Anvil, 2007) so instead, as we in the north of England move towards sharp, chilly mornings, I direct you to the poem “Frost” by Valerie Bloom – and make sure you listen to Valerie’s own exquisite reading of it too. It’s taken from Valerie’s The World is Sweet (Bloomsbury, 2001).
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