Poems Out Loud

This audio collection features approximately 40 poems performed by some of the UK's top children's poets.

The focus is on poems that come to life in performance and meet the needs of the classroom teacher, particularly at KS2 in terms of delivering the Literacy Hour requirements for poetry. Paul Cookson, Michael Rosen, Andrew Fusek Peters, Pie Corbett, Wes Magee and John Rice are just some of the poets that are included.

Strongly represented are poets and poems from ethnic minorities whose work is more readily appreciated in performance than on the printed page, such as John Agard, Valerie Bloom, Debjani Chatterjee and Adisa. Brian Moses aims to demonstrate not only the richness and excitement of poetry (many of the poems are accompanied by atmospheric music and sound effects), but also to meet a wide variety of curriculum needs.

An accompanying book provides all the poems in written form.