The Works 1

Name: The Works 1
Brand: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9781035051144
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25th Anniversary Edition

By Paul Cookson

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The Works poetry collection is 25 years old! This special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom, and Pie Corbett. The Works contains every kind of poem you will ever need for school, but it is also a... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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The Works 1

A poetry collection with every kind of poem you will ever need at school!

Description

The Works poetry collection is 25 years old! This special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom, and Pie Corbett.

The Works contains every kind of poem you will ever need for school, but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader.

It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse, and performance poetry. And that's just for starters.

Featuring poems from the very best classic and modern poets, including: William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, and many more.

A book packed with gems for dipping into time and time again.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035051144

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 37.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 406g

Pages: 608

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About the Author

Paul Cookson spends most of his time visiting schools, performing his poetry and helping children to write their own poems. He has compiled lots of poetry anthologies for Macmillan, including The Works and 100 Brilliant Poems for Children. He supports Everton and lives with his family in Nottinghamshire.