Bright Bursts of Colour

By Matt Goodfellow and Aleksei Bitskoff

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A brilliant, prize-winning collection of poems by Matt Goodfellow
Winner of the 2020 North Somerset Teachers' Book Award for best children's poetry book
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What if cats had flavoured fur, or you swallowed the sun? What if you were a special kind of badger, or you found a map to the stars? And what if your home was split during the week: one half at Mum's, the other half at Dad's?

Packed with brilliant poems that explore a whole range of themes from the downright silly to the sensitive, this collection will delight, enthuse and resonate with children and adults alike.
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'Those who love poetry should snap up Matt Goodfellow's rich and vivid new collection' - The Guardian
'Matt Goodfellow is a fresh voice on the children's poetry scene' - Pie Corbett
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Book Band: Brown
Ideal for ages 7+

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Feb 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781472963550

Matt Goodfellow

Matt Goodfellow is a poet and primary school teacher from Manchester. He has had poems published in magazines and anthologies worldwide and released his acclaimed debut collection, Carry Me Away.

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Contents

The Sometimes Song

Poetry

Missing Lessons

If Cats had Flavoured Fur

Ten

Chameleon Kids

Hot Stuff

Split

Mist

A Special Badger

Just Words

Doggy

Liam

Goggles

Trapped

Just Enough

Inside

Fledgling

David

Believe

Ghost on the Glass

Book People

Four Seasons in One Class

I Fell in Love with a Crumpet

Assembly

Catch Her if You Can

Happy

I Will Sing

Grandpa’s Shoes

The Shortest Ever Secondary School Career

Where We Shouldn’t Be

Wonder Watcher

Dogs with Human Names

Too Late

Brum Brum

The Not a Poem Poem

Dad

The Greatest Play in the World

Archie’s Getting Old

Difficult

Strest

All Things Must Pass

ExPEARiment

The Day

The Clouded House

BREAKfast

Better at Yours

Ride

Nuts

Broken

The Sky is the Colour of Grandma’s Hair

Empty

Chester Zoo

A Pear of Shoes

A Pear of Socks

Cheers

When the Mask Slips

Child Soldiers

There (a refugee song)

Somewhere, a sister

Ghost Walk

Bram

Still Aloud

Hot

Remember

Acknowledgements

The Sometimes Song

sometimes in the shadows

sometimes in the light

sometimes when it’s cloudy

sometimes when it’s bright

sometimes when it seems like

darkness might have won

we sometimes sing the sometimes song

the one we sang with Mum

Poetry