Poems & books & things
Have you ever wondered how antibiotics were discovered, when the first woman went to space, why people love Shakespeare, or who invented sliced bread? Shaping the World is a brand new gift anthology collated by Liz Brownlee and published by Macmillan, containing forty incredible shape poems in the shape of world shapers! Learn about about …
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"An imaginarium is a ‘place devoted to the imagination’ - an excellent way of describing this creative and thought-provoking collection of poems. All manner of ideas and thoughts are explored here in a seemingly random collection of fabulous wonderings and reflections," says the North Somerset Teachers' Book Award of Saturdays at the Imaginarium. "There are …
Big thanks to Ian Eagleton at The Reading Realm for inviting me over for a virtual chat about my book Saturdays at the Imaginarium. I really enjoyed the interview. Ian had some really interesting questions, like... In a fast-moving world, have we lost the ability to sit back and imagine? Can you tell us a …
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"Step out of your daily grind and into Shauna’s imaginarium – where humdrum is injected with colour, feelings and emotions with clarity, and empathy is just how and where you need it to be," writes Liz Brownlee in her review of Saturdays at the Imaginarium for PoetryRoundabout.com. "You know those somethings you catch out of the …
Huge thanks to reviewer Ferelith Hordon at the brilliant children's book magazine Books for Keeps for their lovely 'five stars' review of Saturdays at the Imaginarium! Here's a few extracts - "Welcome to Shauna Darling Robertson’s Imaginarium where she will introduce you to ideas, questions, possibilities that should not be... In other words she …
My long-time friend and poetry collaborator Josephine Corcoran, editor of the brilliant adult poetry webzine And Other Poems recently interviewed me for her blog - you can find the interview over at josephinecorcoran.org. Thanks heaps to Josephine. Here's a bit more about her brilliant writing. Josephine Corcoran lives in Trowbridge. She has published two poetry collections, What Are …
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It's a really lovely feeling when a reader or reviewer spots something in your writing, something you realise you felt in your heart all along but didn't consciously know was there until they pointed it out! Big thanks, then, to Roger Stevens and the folks at Poetry Zone for their recent review of Saturdays at …
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I'm thrilled to introduce you to Saturdays at the Imaginarium, my first collection of poems written for children, published October 2020. The book is illustrated by Jude Wisdom and published by the lovely folks at Troika. Want one? (Oh go on...). Why not pop into your local bookshop or order a copy online now from bookshop.org. Buying …
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National Poetry Day is on 1st October 2020 and this year's theme is 'See It Like A Poet'. So I had a go at making a short animated film of one of my poems, 'When I was Cross-Eyed'. The poem's from my book Saturdays at the Imaginarium, and it's inspired by the idea that “We …
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Allow me to introduce you to Nina and Sebastian Rocha, my niece and nephew. Sadly we don't get to see nearly enough of each other because I live in England and they live in Brisbane, Australia. Anyway, when they saw that I had a new book out, they decided to interview me. Here's what they …
Shauna Darling Robertson 