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The winner of the CLiPPA 2019 Award is Steven Camden for his debut collection Everything All At Once
The award, now in its 17th year and managed by CLPE, was announced and presented at a special Poetry Show (attended by shadowing schools) held at the National Theatre on this afternoon, 3rd July.
For details of the shortlist see this previous post…
CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) is now in its 17th year and is the only award for published poetry for children in the UK. CLiPPA highlights an important branch of children’s literature, ensuring that it receives proper recognition.
The CLiPPA 2019 shortlist, announced on 25 April is :
The judges also wanted to give special mention to England Poems From A School (Picador), edited by Kate Clanchy, in acknowledgement of the raw, emotional and yet extremely accomplished collection of poems written by the group of teenage girls from a small comprehensive school in Oxford.
The Poetry Show, where the 2019 winner will be announced, will be held on 3 July 2019 at the National Theatre.
Louise Johns-Shepherd, Chief Executive at CLPE said: “At CLPE we want to make poetry integral to the school curriculum and for it to be in every school, classroom, library, corridor and book bag. This shortlist – selected from the biggest number of submissions in the award’s history -shows such a range and breadth of what poetry for children is and can be and recognises a real variety of voices and styles. We look forward to more children, teachers and schools discovering these works through our shadowing scheme.”
CLiPPA 2019 Chair and Judges:
This year the Chair of the Judging panel is AF Harrold, multi-award winning author, performer and poet.
AF will be joined by a range of poetry experts who share a passion for poetry and its place in children’s literacy.
Karl Nova – 2018 CLiPPA winner with his debut collection Rhythm and Poetry
Susannah Herbert – director of Forward Arts Foundation and National Poetry Day
Ruth Awolola – highly commended at CLiPPA 2018 with her poems which were included in the Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry collection
Charlotte Hacking – CLPE Learning Programme Leader
Shadowing Scheme:
For the fifth year we will be running the Schools Shadowing Scheme alongside CLiPPA.
View the Shadowing Scheme Video to find out more
The scheme is all about getting children to read, write and perform poetry using the shortlisted works and the free teaching resources provided by CLPE. Schools then send in videos of children’s performances from which 5 winning groups are selected to perform at the CLiPPA awards ceremony on 3 July at the National Theatre.
Savannah Brown, author of The Truth About Keeping Secrets, explains all about ESCAPRIL, a community social media poetry project that encourages participants to write and post a poem a day throughout April.
ACHUKA plans to get on board to support and promote this – why not join in too?
Hip Hop artist and debut poet Karl Nova was announced the winner of CLiPPA 2018 at the Olivier Theatre on the South Bank this afternoon, to a great cheer from the young people in the audience – clearly a highly popular winner.
Rising Stars, a poetry collection including young poets and performers from under-represented communities, was highly commended.
Grace Nichols, Poet and Chair of the CLiPPA 2018 judges praised the winning book: “This book really stood out for me with its refreshing use of the rap genre, its musicality, its immediacy and thoughtful reflections on the creative process. Karl Nova’s poems ring true with a sincere charm that children and young people can relate to and that may inspire their own writing.”
Rhythm and Poetry, Karl’s debut collection, includes poems drawn from his extensive work as a poetry educator and the many workshops he holds in schools. It has a refreshing directness, honesty and authenticity which encourages children to see poetry in the everyday, explores the musicality of the medium and demonstrates the currency and significance of rap as an art form. The book is published by Caboodle, the publishing arm of Authors Abroad, which operates on a 50/50 share of costs and profits with published authors.
This year, with the support of the Siobhan Dowd Trust, CLPE have ensured 350 free copies of the shortlisted poetry books will be sent to teachers nationally to celebrate poetry with children.
Karl Nova received the award and a cheque for £1,000 in front of a packed audience of poets, educators, publishers, hundreds of shadowing school children and media at The National Theatre. The shortlisted poets all performed on stage alongside children from the CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme, whose winning performances were selected from hundreds of competition entries. Everyone who attended received an advance copy of the new anthology from National Poetry Day, Poetry for a Change.
CLiPPA is made possible by the generous support of ALCS, Siobhan Dowd Trust and St Olave’s Fund.
Films of the shortlisted poets performing and teaching resources are available at www.clpe.org.uk/poetryline
The first ever official National Poetry Day anthology, Poetry For a Change, is packed with an exciting variety of poems for children by a top team of fantastic poets, including the National Poetry Day Ambassadors, who bring poetry alive all year round.
It includes new poems by Deborah Alma, Joseph Coelho, Sally Crabtree, Jan Dean, Marjorie Lotfi Gill, Chrissie Gittins, Matt Goodfellow, Sophie Herxheimer, Michaela Morgan, Brian Moses, Abigail Parry, Rachel Piercey, Rachel Rooney, Joshua Siegal and Kate Wakeling (winner of the CLiPPA, 2017).
Each featured poet has also chosen a favourite poem to share, providing readers the chance to (re-) discover works by Lola Ridge, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, Shakespeare and Paul Laurence Dunbar among others at the same time as discovering new and inspirational poems.
CLOSING: 9am GMT on Friday 1st June 2018
In partnership with the House of Illustration and the Betjeman Poetry Prize, Lauren Child, Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2017-2019, announces an international illustration competition:
An international illustration prize for illustrators aged 18- 25 years
Illustrate a poem by a Betjeman Poetry Prize finalist
£1000 first prize, plus prizes for commended illustrators
Top 12 illustrators will be commissioned to create further work to be exhibited at St Pancras International station, London, in September 2018
Judges: Lauren Child, award-winning author and illustrator; director of the House of Illustration Colin McKenzie and Imtiaz Dharker, Queen’s Gold Medal winning poet and artist
Competition opens February 1st 2018 and closes 9am GMT on Friday June 1st 2018
HOW TO ENTER
Create an illustration for one poem of your choice from the 12 poems listed HERE
Each illustration entered must be accompanied by the poem title
We require full-page illustrations in black and white. Do not illustrate around the words. The illustrations can be in any medium suitable for reproduction. However, all entries must be appropriate for the dimensions given here: Your illustrations can either bleed off the page or be surrounded by a white border for a trimmed page size of 210 x 297mm (A4)
Original artwork should not be submitted. You should submit your illustration at 150 dpi, Greyscale, JPEG (jpeg setting 8). If you are shortlisted, we will contact you for the master artwork. Master artwork must be a 300dpi Greyscale TIFF
To enter, email your artwork as an attachment to . In the body of the email you should give your name, age, address and a contact telephone number. You MUST state to which poem your illustration corresponds
Pay your entry fee of £15 by PayPal HERE. The email used for the PayPal payment MUST be the same used to send your illustration
Your entry will be confirmed by email once we have received both your payment and your illustration. Original artwork sent by post will not be considered
Artists may enter more than once with a separate entry fee for each illustration
The 12 winning illustrators will be commissioned to create a fresh illustration for the Lauren Child Poetry Illustration Prize exhibition of poems and winning illustrations to be held on the Upper Concourse at St Pancras International, London in September 2018
Read the terms and conditions HERE
Any problems, email
The final deadline for entries to the competition is 9am GMT on Friday 1st June 2018
Congratulations to indie Otter-Barry Books, publisher of half the books on this years CLiPPA shortlist, announced by CLPE today.
Established in 2003, the CLiPPA encourages and celebrates outstanding poetry published for children.
The shortlist is evenly split between 3 previous winners and 3 debut collections, with 3 out of the 6 shortlisted books coming from independent publisher Otter-Barry Books.
Louise Johns-Shepherd, Chief Executive, CLPE said “CLiPPA is leading an essential movement to build on the current huge popularity of poetry and the growing poetry market to ensure that poetry for children is acknowledged as an essential part of this landscape. The shortlist recognises not just great children’s poets but great poets full stop. We want as many people as possible to know about these wonderful works and CLiPPA, the Shadowing Scheme and the resources we produce all come together to make sure that they receive the high profile they deserve.”
This year there was an increase in submissions of almost 70%, from 19 books from 9 publishers in 2017 to 32 books from 19 publishers in 2018.
The full shortlist is:
The judging panel, chaired by CLiPPA 2003 winner, Grace Nichols, included Kate Wakeling, poet and CLiPPA 2017 winner for Moon Juice; Imogen Lycett Green, Director of the Betjeman Prize for Young Poet; Charlotte Hacking, CLPE Learning Programme Leader; and Anthony Anaxagorou, poet, poetry educator and founder of Out-Spoken Press.
The winner of the 2018 Award will be announced on 22nd June in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre in London. This will be the 4th year that CLPE has partnered with the National Theatre to deliver the Poetry Show which will include performances from children participating in the Shadowing Scheme and the shortlisted poets.
The winning poet receives £1000.
The free Shadowing Scheme to involve schools in the Poetry Award 2018 is launched alongside the announcement of the shortlist. The scheme has run for 3 years, reaching more than 600 teachers and 14,000 children.
To support schools to take poetry into the classroom, videos of poets performing from the shortlisted books and talking about their work and high quality teaching resources,
are available free of charge to all schools www.clpe.org.uk/poetryline. Shadowing schools are invited to apply for free tickets to attend the Award Ceremony.
New for 2018: CLPE will be partnering with ALCS (Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society) to educate teachers and children about copyright and about the rights of writers.
This is a fantastic opportunity. Can’t recommend it highly enough.The resources produced by the CLPE are always superb.
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Bring poetry to life in your class with free resources and win the chance to perform at the National Theatre! |
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Regularly published and awarded in America since the 1970s, Eloise Greenfield is little known in the UK. That’s about to change. In April Tiny Owl will be publishing Thinker: My Puppy Poet And Me. The African-American author’s poetry collection will be illustrated by Iranian artist Ehsan Abdollahi. The title is part of the publisher’s wider programme of promoting under-represented voices and cultures in literature.
Eloise Greenfield has written 47 books for children in a career spanning nearly 60 years. She is known for her focus on positive portrayals of black culture and family life and was recently awarded the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. This prestigious award celebrates an African American author or illustrator who has made a significant and lasting contribution to literature.
The book will be published in April.
A sequence of short features focusing on the five individual young poets included in the recently-launched collection Rising Stars published by Otter-Barry Books.
Boorn in 1997 and raised in East London, Amina Jama is a Somali-British writer and member of the Barbican Young Poets collective. She has had worked published by the Sula Collective, an online magazine ‘for and by people of colour’.
There are several examples of her spoken word poetry on YouTube, including this powerful piece performed for an adult audience.
‘The House At The End Of The Street’ is one of the best poems in the Rising Stars collection
One of the ironies of an anthology of poets known for their spoken word work is that it contains so many poems that do not rely on performance for their impact. This may be because the poets’ performed poetry is usually more adult in theme. Whatever the reason, ‘The House At The End Of The Street’, about a best friend moving home, is one such example of a poem that has full adequacy as printed words on a page.
Written in rhyming couplets it is lightly descriptive in a manner that belies the emotion behind it.
Leila was my best friend since Year Two.
For years we got each other through.
I was there when her dad left her mum,
I plaited her hair and stroked her heart until she was numb.
Now she was moving out from her house at the end of the street
and another kid would come into class and take her seat.
I also like the ambiguity at the start of the poem. Why are there ‘officers and firemen going in and out’? What of the ‘distant burnt smell’?
There is a welcome sense of humour in ‘Car Ride’, a poem about a father who always gets the words to songs wrong:
He would sing, ‘The Grand Old Duke of Pork…’
‘No, Dad!’ we’d scream. “It’s York!.”
No matter how many times we’d tell him
that there was no Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Fart,
and the song was not Row, Row, Row Your Goat…
Links to pieces about the other poets in the collection:
