Först ut är "Werewolf club rules", av Joseph Coelho. I boken kan man bland annat läsa roliga dikter om "hur man gör för att likna en regnbåge" eller "hur man viker ihop sin farmor".
Joseph Coelho är en Performance Poet, dramatiker och styrelseledamot i litteraturorganisationen "Spread the word". Hans poesi har publicerats av bokförlaget Macmillan i följande antologier: Jacqueline Wilson's Green Glass Bead Poems for Girls, The Works 6 och Read Me At School.
Jag har inte tillgång till den nominerade boken så jag bjuder istället på en fin dikt som Joseph Coelho anpassat för en poesilektion. Den går att finna på Poetry Society's webbplats för "Poetryclass", under rubriken "How do poets use language?".
If all the world were paper, by Joseph Coelho
(from The Works 6. Macmillan, 2007.)
If all the world were paper
I would fold up my gran and take her everywhere I go.
I would laminate my baby sister in bubble wrapand lay her to
sleep in unbound fairy-tale book pages
and should she get scared:
Rip every fear,
Shred every scream,
Tear every tear.
If all the world were paper
I would re-bind my grandfather,
smooth out the dog-ears to all his stories,
place his younger days in a zoetrope
and flush the harrowing chapters
down an ink-gurgling well.
If all the world were paper,
kind deeds would be post-it notes
that stuck to the doer in ever growing trails,
so we would always remember,
friends would come with perforated lines
so you could keep their best bits with you at all times.
If all the world were paper,
Christmas wrapping foil and birthday cards
would follow you to school.
If all the world were paper
dreams would be Braille
so we could read them whilst we slept,
nightmares would be shopping lists
because shopping lists are so easy to forget.
If all the world were paper
arguments would rustle before they started
and could be put right with a little tape.
If all the world were paper
we could paperclip families together,
draw smiles on all the sad faces,
rub out the tears,
cover our homes in Tipp-Ex and start all over again.
All the world is not paper
but whilst we can imagine it were
we can recycle the rough times
knowing we will never - ever fold.
***
Nästa nominerade bok är väl den som sticker ut mest. Det är en antologi som hyllar karibisk kultur på ett livligt och roligt vis. Boken heter "Give the ball to the poet" och är illustrerad av Jane Ray. Den ges ut av Commonwealth Education.
Här får ni ett litet textutdrag signerat Linton Kwesi Johnson. Dikten heter "Seasons of the heart".
...
now memories
slowly drift on by
like grey clouds
against a sombre winter sky
and all our yesterdays are now become
the springtime of our days.
***
Jag avslutar med en bok av en tidigare vinnare. År 2012 tilldelades Rachel Rooney, The CLPE Poetry Award, för sin antologi "The language of cat". I år är hon nominerad för boken "My life as a goldfish and other poems".
Rachel Rooney föddes i London som det femte barnet av sex, och bor nu i Brighton, Sussex. Hon arbetade under många år som lärare för barn med särskilda behov innan hon upptäckte sin kärlek för att läsa och skriva poesi. Källa: rachelrooneypoet.co.uk
Home time, by Rachel Rooney
(from My life as a goldfish and other poems. London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2014.)
It’s five past three.
Sixty-four eyes look at me.
No. Sixty-two.
Not Matthew.
He hasn’t learnt to read my face.
He’s got digital. A disgrace!
I reach to ten.
The school bell sounds and then – relief.
No more glueing, sticking.
Just me and the teacher
ticking
ticking
ticking.
***
De övriga två nominerade böckerna är:
"Let in the stars", redaktör: Mandy Coe
"Blue balloons and rabbit ears", av Hilda Offen
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