Skinny Dip: Poetry

A POETRY ANTHOLOGY FROM THE MAKERS OF THE FAMOUSANNUALSA new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. Butwhat happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in cornersand see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there arehungry piranhas in the gym, that someone's painted everything blue.In Skinny Dip!, the makers of the best-selling Annuals bring you over thirty poemsfor young readers from all the New Zealand writers we love: Sam Duckor-Jones,essa may ranapiri, Bill Manhire, Anahera Gildea, Amy McDaid, K?tuku Nuttall, BenBrown, Ashleigh Young, Rata Gordon, Dinah Hawken, Oscar Upperton, JamesBrown, Victor Rodger, Tim Upperton, Lynley Edmeades, Freya Daly Sadgrove,Renee Liang and Nick Ascroft.Edited by two of New Zealand's most astute and experienced champions of greatbooks for young readers, and with stylish illustrations by Amy van Luijk, this wittycollection gives young readers in years 7 to 10 and their teachers and wh?nau acrash-course in the range of poetic forms while having a whole lot of reading fun.

“'Bold and timely. A magnificent range of form from some of our best contemporary voices.' --Hera Lindsay Bird”

Susan Paris has twenty years' experience in publishing. She has edited theSchool Journal for fifteen years, producing more than fifty Journals. Shehas written Ready to Read titles and more than 40 chapter books for theeducational market, both New Zealand and overseas. With Kate De Goldi shecommissioned and edited the best-selling anthologies of children's writing,Annual and Annual 2.

Kate De Goldi was born in 1959 in Christchurch. Kate launched her career in 1988 by winning the American Express Short Story Award, and three years later won the BNZ/Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award. Her first novel, Like You, Really, was published in 1994 under the pseudonym Kate Flannery. Her stories are about contemporary teenagers and their struggle to craft their identity both inside and outside the family dynamic, are set in her native South Island, in Canterbury or Westland. Kate has written three books for young adults: Sanctuary (1996), which won the New Zealand Post Senior Fiction Award and the Esther Glen medal; Love, Charlie Mike, which was short-listed in the 1998 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and Closed, Stranger, which took out the Honours Award in the same competition (2000). Kate is a regular reviewer of children's books on National Radio's Kim Hill programme. Her books for young adults are published internationally and regularly feature on school curricula in both New Zealand and across the Tasman. In 2015 her title From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, made the New Zealand best Seller List.

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