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Why is children's poetry so invisible?

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Chrissie Gittins says it’s time to get confident about children’s poetry, children love it – so publishers, bookshops and libraries should stop hiding it and start celebrating

Tell us your favourite poets and poems by email childrens.books@theguardian.com or on Twitter @GdnChildrensBks– and we’ll add them to this blog

Hoorah for the just-out CLPE poetry award shortlist! What treasures! In fact it’s the only award for a book of children’s poetry in this country. Lucky for writers of children’s fiction there are at least 10 opportunities for them to submit to prizes which are solely for fiction. But, is poetry eligible for the Carnegie Medal, the Costa Book Awards, and the National Book Awards? Yes it is! Have you ever seen poetry shortlisted for these awards?

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@GdnChildrensBks My favourite poet as a teenager was Sylvia Plath. I still love and regularly re-read Ariel.

@MichaelRosenYes gets my vote!!! #poetryhttps://t.co/1ClzzEy78Q

@GdnChildrensBks@Armandii@clpe1@PoetrySociety One of my favourites is @Lizpoet (Liz Brownlee). Highly recommend! pic.twitter.com/TTIDkbDQgI

@GdnChildrensBks@Armandii@clpe1@PoetrySociety My favourite poem is Spike Milligan's 'On the Ning Nang Nong'. It has been since I was 7.

@GdnChildrensBks My parents were both children's poets, & I grew up surrounded by Spike Milligan, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Ted Hughes.

@GdnChildrensBks@Armandii@clpe1@poetrysociety Sarah Crossan! Stunning writer. Her words are crisp and clear and so, so precisely lovely.

@GdnChildrensBks@Armandii@clpe1@PoetrySociety My favourite poem is Edward Lear's The Owl and The Pussycat, I learnt it at primary school.

@GdnChildrensBks@Armandii@clpe1@PoetrySociety Too hard so many! Me-Forgiven by A A Milne Son1-Jabberwocky son2-Dad's in Bed Michael Rosen

@GdnChildrensBks@clpe1@PoetrySociety Polkabats & Octopus Slacks by @CalefBrown is a favorite--all his poetry books for kids are great!

The Sea's Hands by @george_szirtes is perfect @GdnChildrensBks

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