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Right Way Down
A middle-reader poetry collection
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Featuring poems from award-winning and emerging writers for middle grade reading. Grow a poet-tree with Meg McKinlay or curl up next to your cat with Amber Moffat and watch a bit of Stink-o-Vision with James Foley. These, and loads more poems by Australian poets, are there...
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Featuring poems from award-winning and emerging writers for middle grade reading.
Grow a poet-tree with Meg McKinlay or curl up next to your cat with Amber Moffat and watch a bit of Stink-o-Vision with James Foley. These, and loads more poems by Australian poets, are there to discover in Right Way Down.
With striking illustrations by Briony Stewart, these poems will have you laughing, thinking, and playing with words - whichever way up you read them.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781760993429
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 February 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Fremantle Press
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 141.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 155g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Rebecca M. Newman writes poetry for children and flash fiction for adults. Her work can be found in Australian and international anthologies, magazines and popping out of the short-story dispenser in Perth’s Raine Square. After contributing to all those anthologies she thought it was time to edit her own, so she joined forces with Sally Murphy to co-edit Right Way Down and Other Poems. She is the founding editor at Alphabet Soup Books, and the primary school judge for the 2023 and 2024 Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. When she’s not writing you’ll find Rebecca messing about with collage or playing Irish fiddle tunes on an old violin. Sally Murphy is an award-winning author and poet with over fifty books to her name, and poems in numerous anthologies, journals and more.
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