We Are Poets! is Helên Thomas's new collection for 7-11 year olds (and their parents!) and features a selection of children's poems ranging from the floor filling anthemic action poem: 'Everybody Everywhere Stomp Your Feet!' to the calming chill-out poetry of 'Memory Beach'. The book showcases a variety of poetic styles including narrative verse, limericks, rap and there's even a villanelle in there! The poems introduce a wide range of fantastic characters including rock-star silk worms; obese fruit bats; myopic professors and lots of naughty, grubby, scabby children!
The limericks, rhymes, poems and songs in this book have been performed in schools by dynamic performance poetry duo We Are Poets!  The duo comprises of proper, posh poet, Penelope Page and grubby, street poet, Gabby Mouth. Penelope Page thinks she's posh. She likes to use her imagination to write poetry about ice cream, fruit bats and lovely toyshops. Gabby Mouth has scabby knees and writes about ladies who burp and people who don't wash.
With b&w illustrations by Paul Neads.

Helên performs regularly throughout the UK. In 1985 she was a runner up in She magazine's National Poetry Competition and won the Manchester Poetry Festival Slam in October 2000. Appearances include: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival; The Bristol Poetry Festival and The Cheltenham Festival of Literature. All of the poems in this book are written by Helên, and feature in the original We Are Poets! show or in the follow up We Are Poets Stuck In The Airport! 
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"I love your poems so much, I think you deserve a treat" - Yr 1 pupil
at Holy Spirit Primary School, Merseyside
"Year 4 haven't stopped writing poetry since!" - Yr 4 teacher at St. Oswald's School, Netherton
"Your lively and enthusiastic poetry really was a breath of fresh air! We will miss you!" - KS1 teacher at Forefield Infants School, Crosby

"Helên sets about planting seeds with this super collection of contemporary poetry for children. She is well known for her entertaining and thought provoking poetry readings and school theatre and with this book sets about translating some of her energy, enthusiasm and playfulness to the page. Playing with structure and form she produces magical poetry which shows how relevant poetry can be. It's fun, it's amazing, it's Helên on top form. Some great illustrations by Paul Neads. This is a collection that should be in every school library" - Jim Bennet, The Poetry Kit
"This book of young people's verse will have your sprogs agog with humour both cheeky and endearing. The right side of risky and just a little frisky... You'd be a bad parent if you didn't buy this book" - Gerry Potter, poet & playwright
"A lively, lovely and very funny collection of children's verse in the spirit of Edward Lear and Roald Dahl. There are limericks and structured poems as well as verse that just play with the joys of rhyme and alliteration. The book comes with tremendous cartoon illustrations provided by Paul Neads" - Arthur Chappell, poet & performer, arthurchappell.clara.net/book.review

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