Poetry Prompts Library
Catch up with Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho's fabulous Poetry Prompts videos and resources right here!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 52nd week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 52 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's feeling the cold...
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 51st week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 51 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's making clothing poems.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 50th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 50 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's making acrostic poems.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 49th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 49 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's making animal poems.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 48th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 48 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, it's all about homophones - words that sound the same, but have different meanings.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 47th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 47 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's joined by cyclist Jenny Graham to make some concrete bike poems.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 46th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 46 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's joined by Konya Kanneh-Mason to make some music.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 45th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 45 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's joined by Nicola Davies to talk about poems from the heart.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 44th week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 44 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's joined by MC Grammar for some rhyming fun.
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the 43rd week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 43 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, he's joined by Chris Smith to break some big news about superheroes (and supervillains too!)
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the forty-second week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 42 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, we're making biscuit poems... and eating them! Why not try David Atherton's biscuit recipe below to have a go at your own?
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the forty-first week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 41 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, it's all about engineers.
Join Joseph Coelho for the fortieth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 40 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's using one letter in lots of ways.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-ninth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 39 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's creating bizarre animals.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-eighth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 38 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's celebrating World Refugee Day.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-seventh week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 37 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's cooking up a recipe poem about himself.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-sixth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 36 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's thinking about plastic pollution for World Environment Day.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-fifth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 35 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's showing us how to make Renga poems.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-fourth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 34 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's showing us how to write a pet poem.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-third week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 32 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's making a poe-tree.
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-second week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 32 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week it's all about BUGS...
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirty-first week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 31 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week we're celebrating International Dance Day, and this prompt is all about how to make poems dance...
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirtieth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 30 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week is about diminuendo... poems that get quieter and quieter.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-ninth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 29 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week is about making blackout poems out of junk mail...
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-eighth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 28 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week is about turning photographs into poems...
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-seventh week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 27 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week it's an egg-stra special Easter prompt.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-sixth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 26 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week we're looking at found poems.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-fifth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 25 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week we're thinking about how to convey emotion in a poem.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-four week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 24 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week we're learning how to read poems with atmosphere.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-third week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 23 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week we're writing poems about our heroes.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-second week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 22 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week he's celebrating World Book Day.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twenty-first week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 21 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time it's Pancake Day.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twentieth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 20 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're writing on stones.
Join Joseph Coelho for the nineteenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 19 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're writing nature inspired haikus.
Join Joseph Coelho for the eighteenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 18 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're writing terribly tricky tongue twisters.
Join Joseph Coelho for the seventeenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 17 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're reading poems REALLY FAST.
Join Joseph Coelho for the sixteenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 16 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're repeating lines in a poem.
Join Joseph Coelho for the fifteenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 15 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're giving voices to objects...
Join Joseph Coelho for the fourteenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 14 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time we're looking ahead to a brand new year...
Join Joseph Coelho for the thirteenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 13 of his Poetry Prompts series! This time it's an extra-special Christmas prompt.
Join Joseph Coelho for the twelfth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for Week 12 of his Poetry Prompts series! This week, it's all about describing different colours.
Join Joseph Coelho for the eleventh week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the eleventh Poetry Prompts video! This week, he's thinking about food... yum!
Join Joseph Coelho for the tenth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the 10th Poetry Prompts video - this time, he's encouraging you to read poems in different voices.
Join Joseph Coelho for the ninth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the ninth Poetry Prompt! This week he's turning last week's similes into metaphors.
Join Joseph Coelho for the eighth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the eighth Poetry Prompts video - this week Joseph's thinking about comparing words using similes.
Join Joseph Coelho for the sixth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the seventh Poetry Prompts video - this time, we're thinking of words that describe us.
Join Joseph Coelho for the seventh week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the seventh Poetry Prompts video - this time, it's all about words that rhyme.
Join Joseph Coelho for the fifth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the fourth Poetry Prompts video - this time, it's all about Halloween!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024 Joseph Coelho for the fourth week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the fourth Poetry Prompts video - this time, Joseph's thinking about onomatopoeia and describing sounds with words...
Join Joseph Coelho for the third week of Poetry Prompts!
This time, Joseph encourages you to take your pen on a journey around your imagination for some freewriting.
Join Joseph Coelho for the second week of Poetry Prompts!
Join Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho for the second Poetry Prompts video - this time, he'll be helping you to make a mini notebook and write one-word poems! All you need is a sheet of paper and some coloured pens or pencils.
Waterstones Children's Laureate: Joseph Coelho
Poet Joseph Coelho is the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-24.
The role of Children's Laureate is awarded once every two years to an eminent writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field. Find out what Joseph's been up to.