Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi (English) Paperback Book

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A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals

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A POETRY ANTHOLOGY FROM THE MAKERS OF THE FAMOUSANNUALSA new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. Butwhat happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in cornersand see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there arehungry piranhas in the gym, that someone's painted everything blue.In Skinny Dip!, the makers of the best-selling Annuals bring you over thirty poemsfor young readers from all the New Zealand writers we love: Sam Duckor-Jones,essa may ranapiri, Bill Manhire, Anahera Gildea, Amy McDaid, K?tuku Nuttall, BenBrown, Ashleigh Young, Rata Gordon, Dinah Hawken, Oscar Upperton, JamesBrown, Victor Rodger, Tim Upperton, Lynley Edmeades, Freya Daly Sadgrove,Renee Liang and Nick Ascroft.Edited by two of New Zealand's most astute and experienced champions of greatbooks for young readers, and with stylish illustrations by Amy van Luijk, this wittycollection gives young readers in years 7 to 10 and their teachers and wh?nau acrash-course in the range of poetic forms while having a whole lot of reading fun.

Author Biography

Susan Paris has twenty years' experience in publishing. She has edited theSchool Journal for fifteen years, producing more than fifty Journals. Shehas written Ready to Read titles and more than 40 chapter books for theeducational market, both New Zealand and overseas. With Kate De Goldi shecommissioned and edited the best-selling anthologies of children's writing,Annual and Annual 2.Kate De Goldi was born in 1959 in Christchurch. Kate launched her career in 1988 by winning the American Express Short Story Award, and three years later won the BNZ/Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award. Her first novel, Like You, Really, was published in 1994 under the pseudonym Kate Flannery. Her stories are about contemporary teenagers and their struggle to craft their identity both inside and outside the family dynamic, are set in her native South Island, in Canterbury or Westland. Kate has written three books for young adults: Sanctuary (1996), which won the New Zealand Post Senior Fiction Award and the Esther Glen medal; Love, Charlie Mike, which was short-listed in the 1998 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and Closed, Stranger, which took out the Honours Award in the same competition (2000). Kate is a regular reviewer of children's books on National Radio's Kim Hill programme. Her books for young adults are published internationally and regularly feature on school curricula in both New Zealand and across the Tasman. In 2015 her title From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, made the New Zealand best Seller List.

Table of Contents

Term 1school sucks but at least ur friends are there / Vanessa Mei Crofskey 9/ Nina Mingya Powles 10Lunchtime Offence / Amy McDaid 14Straying Focused / James Brown 17kutu / essa may ranapiri 18Street Fighter / Amber Esau 20School caretaker / Tim Upperton 26Class 3B, 1974 (front row, third on left ) / Jane Arthur 28Please excuse my strange behaviour / Sam Duckor-Jones 30Term 2People Give Me Advice about Dealing with My Frenemy / Ashleigh Young 34After the First Instruction / Ben Brown 36Lunch Experiment / James Brown 40History Lesson / Bill Manhire 43Oral History Project: Aunty Madds remembers when they got rid of five-cent coins / Freya Daly Sadgrove 44Why I need to skip school today / Oscar Upperton 47Waiting in the School Office / Lynley Edmeades 48Great-grandad Rants about 'Current Affairs' / Nick Ascroft 50Term 3Eulogy for the class frog / Oscar Upperton 55Exercise 1.3: Write an Acrostic / Ktuku Titihuia Nutt all 57Meatballs and Mandarins / Lynley Edmeades 58My First Big Hit / Bill Manhire 60te ngahere kwao/the untamed forest / Anahera Gildea 62PE / Tim Upperton 64Sole to Sole / Victor Rodger 66Pot Plant / Rata Gordon 72Full-spectrum Career Highlights / Sam Duckor-Jones 74In the school garden / Dinah Hawken 76the bed in the sick bay / Renee Liang 78Term 4The Hypochondriac Packs / Freya Daly Sadgrove 82Ode to YouTube Academy / Ktuku Titihuia Nutt all 84There's always someone / Bill Manhire 87Dad Helps with Maths Homework / Nick Ascroft 89At the pool with Epeli / Ashleigh Young 90I'm sorry for the bad handwriting the bus is bumpy / Rata Gordon 93JavaScript's School Report / James Brown 94Kua Tangi te Pere/The Bell Has Rung / Anahera Gildea 96

Review

'Bold and timely. A magnificent range of form from some of our best contemporary voices.' --Hera Lindsay Bird

Review Quote

'Bold and timely. A magnificent range of form from some of our best contemporary voices.' --Hera Lindsay Bird

Details ISBN0995140766 Publisher Massey University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0995140766 ISBN-13 9780995140769 Format Paperback Imprint Annual Ink Edited by De Goldi, Kate Audience Children/Juvenile Country of Publication New Zealand Publication Date 2021-09-09 NZ Release Date 2021-09-09 Pages 104 Subtitle Poetry Audience Age 9-12 Author Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi DEWEY 808.8199282 AU Release Date 2021-08-31 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white We've got this

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