We love poetry at Chestnut Books and are passionate about providing children with inspiring poems that will stay with them for a lifetime.

Poetry Collections

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Poetry Collections 〰️

We’ve carefully selected a wonderful range of anthologies that cover a variety of different themes and structures. There are poems to perform and poems to inspire children to write their own verses. We’ve included lots of links to topics and, most importantly, poetry that promotes our shared values of kindness, celebrating diversity and promoting self-confidence & well-being.

“Poetry is the sound of words in your ears, it's the look of poets in motion and that can be you.' ~ Rosen

“Poetry is the sound of words in your ears, it's the look of poets in motion and that can be you.' ~ Rosen

"Poetry has power. It can connect. It can touch a soul." ~ Agard

"Poetry has power. It can connect. It can touch a soul." ~ Agard

“Writing poetry gives me a way to put words and images into other people's hands." ~ Coelho

“Writing poetry gives me a way to put words and images into other people's hands." ~ Coelho

Poetry

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Class Texts

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Poetry 〰️ Class Texts 〰️