Joshua Seigal
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Joshua Seigal is a British children's poet, performer, and educator.[1] He has published many collections of poetry for children with publishers such as Bloomsbury and HarperCollins, and has performed and led workshops at schools and festivals around the world.[2] Seigal has won several awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Book Award and the People's Book Prize.[3][4] He has written and performed for BBC Television and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on numerous occasions, to critical acclaim.[5][6]
Seigal's poem ‘I Don’t Like Poetry’ is featured on the website of the Poetry Foundation and is widely anthologised.[7] He has an MA in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he studied under Michael Rosen.[8]
Bibliography
[edit]- I Am (Collins, 2024) (illustrated by Evelline Andrya)
- Poetry is Not for Me (Collins, 2023) (illustrated by Rebecca Burgess)
- Who Let the Words Out? (Bloomsbury, 2023) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
- Yapping Away (Bloomsbury, 2021) (illustrated by Sarah Horne)
- Welcome to My Crazy Life (Bloomsbury, 2020) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
- I Bet I Can Make You Laugh (Bloomsbury, 2018) (illustrated by Tim Wesson)
- Little Lemur Laughing (Bloomsbury, 2017) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
- I Don't Like Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2016) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
References
[edit]- ^ Seigal, Joshua. "Children's Poet". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "Children's poet proves inspirational". Evesham Observer. 1 April 2019.
- ^ "Walliams, Seigal and Robinson win at the Lollies children's book awards". The Bookseller. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "2021/2022 Winners". The People's Book Prize. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "BBC Bitesize - Bitesize Daily: 9-11 Year Olds - English - Writing Poetry". BBC. 18 June 2021.
- ^ "Joshua Seigal presents The Legend Of Ooshus Magooshus (And Lots Of Other Poems) (Joshua Seigal / PBH's Free Fringe)". Three Weeks Edinburgh. 29 August 2013.
- ^ "I Don't Like Poetry". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "Joshua Seigal: "So How Did You Get Into Poetry, Then?". Children's Poetry Summit. Retrieved 10 October 2024.