Poetry
for Children: The Signal Award 1979-2001
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The
Signal Poetry Award essays appeared in each May issue
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of
the journal Signal Approaches to Children’s Books.
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The
award recipient received a small prize at the time,
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but
the main reward was being accorded first place in a
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substantial
written overview of a year’s publishing of poetry for children.
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The
present collection of these essays is produced to honour
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the
poets again and to provide an accumulated record of what was
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being
written for Signal at the time their collections and
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anthologies
were published. Over more than two decades,
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this record covers hundreds of books.
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The
value of the collection as a resource is augmented by its
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25-page
index, the main- title entries of which include the books’
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original
details: author, illustrator, number of pages and publisher.
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Contributors
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Bob
Barton, Anthea Bell, Gerard Benson, Stephen Bicknell, Aidan Chambers,
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Michael
Glover, Sophie Hannah, Diana Hendry, Peter Holding, Peter Hollindale,
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Peter
Hunt, Heather Kay, Jan Mark, Margaret Meek, John Mole, Brian Morse,
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Lissa
Paul, Neil Philip, Alan Tucker, John Wain, Jennifer Wilson
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Award
Winners & Highly Commended
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Allan
Ahlberg, Gerard Benson, James Berry, Charles Causley, Carol Ann Duffy,
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Helen
Dunmore, Philip Gross, Mike Harding, Anne Harvey, Seamus Heaney, Russell
Hoban,
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Ted
Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Jackie Kay, Naomi Lewis, Christopher Logue,
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Roger
McGough, John Mole, Brian Morse, Grace Nichols, Gareth Owen, Christopher
Reid,
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Michael
Rosen, Matthew Sweeney, Fiona Waters, Raymond Wilson
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Poetry
for Children: The Signal Award 1979-2001
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ISBN
978 0903355 52 0 Paperbound 216 x 140mm 448 pages £14 inland postage-free
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