Alex Wharton is an award-winning writer and performer of poetry for adults and children. His First Book of poetry for children, Daydreams and Jellybeans, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of The Year Award 2022, The North Somerset Teacher’s Book Awards, The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards and was named as a National Poetry Day Recommended Read.
Alex won the inaugural Rising Stars Wales Award in 2020 and is the Children’s Laureate Wales 2023-2025. He has collaborated with key national organisations such as Cadw, National Dance Company Wales, Welsh Government, British Council of Literature and Welsh Libraries, and has also appeared in festivals such as Hay Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Alex’s second and third collections of poetry Doughnuts, Thieves and Chimpanzees and Red Sky at Night: A Poet’s Delight will be published with Firefly Press in 2023 and 2024.
Follow Alex on Twitter @alexwhartonpoet and on Instagram @alexwharton_
3 Ebooks por Alex Wharton
Alex Wharton: Daydreams and Jellybeans
From forgotten jellybeans to sparking daydreams, Alex's poems, written for primary school age children, are both funny and thoughtful, and aim to spark familiarity and inclusion. And the illustr …
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Alex Wharton: Doughnuts, Thieves and Chimpanzees
From Children’s Laureate Wales Alex Wharton comes an innovative poetry ‘how to’ collection aimed at school pupils. Doughnuts, Thieves and Cimpanzees is packed full of fun poems, limericks, haiku, son …
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Alex Wharton: Red Sky at Night, Poet’s Delight
Red Sky at Night, Poet’s Delight is the second collection of funny and thoughtful poems from Alex, aimed at developing a love of language and self-expression. Readers will be excited by fun new chara …
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