water poems

Get your class talking about water Book a speaker or a workshop Download lesson plans and films Poems on Water poetry competition WaterAid has teamed up with the UK’s green poet, Martin Kiszko, to encourage children and young people to write their own... More

Get your class talking about water Book a speaker or a workshop Download lesson plans and films Poems on Water poetry competition WaterAid has teamed up with the UK’s green poet, Martin Kiszko, to encourage children and young people to write their own challenging but fun poetry using personal or imagined experiences based around global water issues. Budding young poets will have the chance to win a poetry workshop and performance by Martin Kiszko for their school, as well as signed books and WaterAid goodies. Martin Kiszko Martin Kiszko is a poet, composer and screenwriter. His book, Green Poems for a Blue Planet, is a collection of 56 poems about how we can help planet Earth. Martin has written Water Walk especially for WaterAid which has accompanying illustrations by Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, to inspire young poets to write (and illustrate if they wish), their own masterpieces. Martin and a specially selected panel of judges will choose the winning poems. Competition Less