What’s the book about?
Stand on your head with Sally Murphy, explode some dynamite with Cristy Burne or shoot some hoops with Cheryl Kickett-Tucker. Grow a poet-tree with Meg McKinlay or curl up next to your cat with Amber Moffat and watch a bit of Stink-o-Vision with James Foley. These and loads more poems by Australian poets are there to discover in Right Way Down. With striking illustrations by Briony Stewart, these poems will have you laughing, thinking, and playing with words – whichever way up you read them.
Three reasons to read it:
- This is poetry at its very best. It’ll get young readers laughing, thinking and playing.
- It’s full to the brim with charming, inspiring and thought-provoking poems.
- Kids get to discover new authors and poets to expand their reading collection.
Recommended for:
Ages 9+.
About the authors:
Sally Murphy is an author, poet and educator – sometimes doing all three things at the same time. She loves playing with words, and encouraging other people to do the same, and loves poetry so much that she completed a doctorate focusing on children’s poetry. When she isn’t writing, reading or talking about writing and reading, she can be found walking on the beach, spending time with her family or swimming.
Rebecca M. Newman writes poetry for children and flash fiction for adults. Her work can be found in Australian and international anthologies, magazines and popping out of the short-story dispenser in Perth’s Raine Square. After contributing to all those anthologies she thought it was time to edit her own, so she joined forces with Sally Murphy to co-edit Right Way Down and Other Poems. She is the founding editor at Alphabet Soup Books, and the primary school judge for the 2023 and 2024 Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. When she’s not writing you’ll find Rebecca messing about with collage or playing Irish fiddle tunes on an old violin.
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