Please recommend the best poetry anthology

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for ds1 5.5

I cant see the point of poems meself

How about starting with AA. Milne's When We Are Six - old fashioned, but sweet and like little stories and quite a good introduction to poetry. I think there's also a The Nation's Favourite Poems antholgy for Children, which might be good.

Oh thanks

its his homework

find a fave poem

was thinking of room ont he broom

here

coddy you philistine!

My ds's favourite book at this age (and indeed now) is Roger McGough's Bad Bad Cats . Excellent poem about Where's Wally amongst others, but maybe not what his teacher had in mind....

Funny, I was thinking of asking dinosaur that - some postings about our respective dss liking poems & think she's rather knowledgeable. Anyway, we got given this (though annoyingly I see it's unavailable at Amazon) & there's lots in there that ds & dd both love. It'll be in the library. Is this Easter hols homework?

yes bink

sm I think just write it like prose

whats the point of poems?

bad cats lloks good

In support of poetry, there is the rhythm thing - in the Oxford Anth I linked to there is Auden's "Night Mail" and reading it aloud very fast so that you can hear the train barrelling along is completely different from listening a story in prose (and I think more fun, but there you go).

ooh yes we did htat at primary school
still know huge chunks of it

"puuling up beatock a steady climb the gradients against her but shes on time"

(and, here's a sneaky one, a poem for a bedtime story is much quicker)

bad mummy

hmm godd one b

there is a fabulous anthology called 'staying alive' that is in the bookshops at the moment...really amazing contemporary poetry...i'm not a poetry aficionado but i loved it...inspiring stuff...

o god, sorry, should have read your post better, this is for adults def not children!!! sorry sorry

coddy, dunno if I'm too late on this one but have you come across Allan Ahlberg's kids' poems? Please Mrs Butler is a hoot, the review says ages 8+ but infants would appreciate it too I think (suits 50+ as well...)

There are some other suggestions on the page too.

Have just thought of another but have to go be a taxi driver, will be back!

poetry is like a concentrated form of prose imo

thaank you Queen of products

I have no idea what the point of poetry is either.

I have yet to find a decent anthology of children's poems in Britain, so can't help. But if one comes to mind, or if one of my poet friends can recommend one, I'll let you know.

Another vote for the one wilbur recommended BBC The Nation's favourite poems of childhood We've got this, and it seems to have everything in it that I remember and enjoy from childhood ... everything from Spike Milligan to Hilaire Belloc to Roald Dahl to A A Milne. A really great selection.