We then leap in and are pulled straight into the classroom, to the playground at lunchtime, all the spaces of a school term: The very first poem in the collection, Vanessa Mei Crofskey’s School sucks but at least ur friends are there, opens the school year. ![]() At the end of the book, there’s a Note on Poetic Form which sets out easily and readably the conventions and structure of each type of poem in the collection. ![]() Each poem is a named form, from the highly structured villanelle and sestina, to the playful free verse and found poems. The book is arranged into a school year, with a selection of 8-11 poems for each term. It shows: this collection is neatly organised, the poetry imaginative, fresh and a little subversive, the authors diverse and innovative. ![]() The book’s edited by consummate professionals Susan Paris and Kate de Goldi, who have worked on other collections together, including the best-selling Annual 1 and Annual 2. Nits, pepeha, the school caretaker, buying sweets in the dairy, the banning of bullrush, social anxiety, the strength of kapa haka, having no money and no lunch, the sick bay, the horrors of school camp… The poems in Skinny Dip Poetry have been carefully curated to appeal to readers in Years 7 (form 1) to 10 (form 4), roughly 11-14years old.
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