The Poets that Ate the Universe
The Poets that Ate the Universe
James Carter and Roger Stevens
Best selling Children’s Poets and musicians Roger Stevens and James Carter
present a show of great performance poetry and groovy guitar music
Story poems and spacey poems, weird and wild and crazy poems
A wonderful interactive show, with optional poetry writing workshops also available
for keystage 2 and lower keystage 3, ages 7-12
Books
James Carter’s recent books:
‘Cars, Stars, Electric Guitars’ - Walker Books
Rummage around inside James Carter’s head and find Darren the dolphin-shaped balloon; a list of things to ask Noah; two poems about crisps; plenty of shape poems; a world record attempt; and lots, lots more, in this remarkable, funny and highly original poetry collection.
‘Time-Travelling Underpants’ - Macmillan Books
A fantastic collection of poems from the wonderful James Carter, in which he talks
about amazing inventions, teaches us how to play air guitar, explores nature, visits
outer space, writes a fantasy Christmas list and gives us invaluable advice about
time-travelling underpants . . .
Roger Stevens’ recent books:
Why Otters Dont Wear Socks - Macmillan Books
The Monster that Ate the Universe - Macmillan Books
Biographies
Roger Stevens is a poet, author and musician. He has had over 200 poems for
children published in anthologies. His solo collections include Why Otters Don’t
Wear Socks and The Monster that Ate the Universe (Macmillan). His acclaimed
verse-novel for teenagers, The Journal of Danny Chaucer (Poet) (Orion), was broadcast by Roger on BBC Radio 4 as the Afternoon Play in 2003. He is a
member of the Poetry Society’s poetry class initiative, and founder of the
children’s publishing website Poetryzone.
James Carter, along with his guitar Keith, is one of the liveliest and quirkiest children’s poets around. His work has been included in over 40 anthologies and
won widespread critical acclaim. James’ poem ‘The Dark’ won the Raymond
Wilson Poetry Prize in 2001 and was read out on CBBC (BBC2) in 2005, where it featured as ’scarey poem of the week’. James’ enthusiasm for writing has led him
to write several teachers’ guides. He also lectures in creative writing and children’s literature at the University of Reading.
