A witchy poetry collection for older children.
A hard-working junior witch strides around a magical landscape, learning her craft. Her cloak is stuffed with scraps of paper letters, notes and lists some of which have tumbled out and been collected into this book.
Nature blends with magic and sometimes more everyday concerns in these soothing, playful, empowering poems. A to-do list for planning a pumpkin party. A blessing for a tiny tree. An identification spell for a bird curse.
Poems from a Witchs Pocket is an eerily enchanting collection aimed at pre-teens but suitable for all ages. Perfect for all aspiring hovel witches!
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There is depth and complexity here about ecology, about friendship but this is all worn lightly and the tone is sustained with great skill and beauty from start to finish. -- Kate Wakeling, Judge of the 2025 Caterpillar Poetry Prize
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For me, this is the sort of magic that only a poem can accomplish..A witchy poetry book for older children.
so you want to become a hovel witch ... 1 Menagerie ... 4 Note Found
Next To An Empty Basket ... 5 wolf song ... 7 Five Clues For Working Out
Which Bird Youve Become ... 9 I complain to my friend who has been turned
into a tree ... 13 A Poem In Which I Disagree With One Of My Favourites ...
15 how to walk on water ... 17 witches also have bad days ... 18 cave ... 20
Summoning Spell ... 21 where I travel at night ... 24 Disappointing Ducks ...
26 gift note ... 28 sapling ... 31 my sister dreams she is a garden ... 33
next time the sadness comes ... 34 October Cauldron Song ... 37 Party
Planning Notes Pumpkin Party To Do ... 38 winter spell ... 40 B/AD ... 42
Refusal ... 45 Come In & Meet The Cat ... 47 Unfortunately The Witches Code
... 49 the faraway siblings ... 51 Hibernation Spell ... 52 bad fairytale ...
53 Spell Song For Extra Courage ... 57 the solitude of guarding a dragon ...
58 Write your own poems! ... 63 Acknowledgements ... 66 Thank-yous ... 67
About the author ... 69 About the illustrator ... 70 About The Emma Press ...
71 Also from The Emma Press ... 72
Laura Theis grew up in a place where each street was named after a different fairy tale. She writes in her second language. Her work has appeared in POETRY, Oxford Poetry, Magma, Rattle, Mslexia, The Caterpillar, Tyger Tyger, and others. She received the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, the Poets&Players Prize, the Hammond House International Literary Award, the AM Heath Prize, the Mogford Short Story Prize, as well as a Forward Prize nomination. Her poetry debut was the winner of the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, and an Elgin Award nominee. Her collection A Spotters Guide To Invisible Things won the Live Canon Collection Prize and received the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. She lives in Oxford. Kate Lucy Foster creates illustrations that are 'natural, cosy and textural'. She is inspired by the world around her and loves to incorporate nature into her work. She combines traditional printmaking, sketching, painting and digital work to give her illustrations an authentic, hand-made quality. Kate studied illustration at Birmingham City University.
