Congratulations to Emma Purshouse

Emma Purshouse wins the Rubery Book Awards

A West Midlands children’s poetry book, written by Emma Purshouse, has beaten off all the adult poetry opposition to scoop up this year’s Rubery Book Awards 2016 Poetry Category. Emma lives aboard nb Shelby with her partner Dave Lovell who runs Croc’s Vinyl Cuts. Her book is available on board and at all good book shops.

About poet Emma Purshouse:

• Emma has run workshops and performed to and with children throughout the West Midlands. She has an MA in Creative Writing.

• Shortlisted twice for the Belmont Children’s Poetry Prize.

• Published in ‘Born to Giggle’ – a Save the Children poetry anthology.

• Her very popular children’s poetry CD ‘Fair & Fowl’ has sold out.

What the judges have to say about ‘I once knew a Poem Who Wore a Hat’:

“Lots of wonderful imaginative and outrageous poems in this collection, which is full of the charms and idiosyncrasies of childhood. It’s easy to see how children could love these breezy poems and become attached to them. One could easily imagine them being learnt by heart and repeated in playgrounds. The illustrations by Catherine Pascall Moore are quirky and appropriate. The hints about, for example, the best way to learn a poem or how to speak a poem aloud, are unusual in a book of this sort and never patronising.”

Here is a poem and its picture from the book:

Chocolate Labrador

We were going to get a pet,
a chocolate Labrador.
Mum said it would be great
but me, I wasn’t sure.

She could see that I was worried.
I told her how I felt,
that I’d rather have a real dog
because a chocolate one might melt!

Future confirmed event:

Emma Purshouse, Catherine Pascall Moore and Figment will be appearing at Waterstones Birmingham at 2pm on Saturday 24 September 2016.

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