Right Way Down
A middle-reader poetry collection
Published on 27. February 2024
145 pages
978-1-76099-343-6 (ISBN)
Description
Stand on your head with Sally Murphy, explode some dynamite with Cristy Burne or shoot some hoops with Cheryl Kickett-Tucker. Grow a poettree 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 you read them.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Half Title
- Contents
- Come On In!
- Dumped-Sally Murphy
- Cooking Up a Storm-Rebecca Grant
- Sick-Renae Hayward
- Here-Jake Gennis
- Rapunzel's Daughter-A. J. Betts
- Off Air-Sally Murphy
- Misty, the Rock Hunter-Nadia L. King
- Come On In!-Cindy Lane
- Shoelaces-Rebecca M. Newman
- Lovin' Basketball-Cheryl Kickett-Tucker
- Cricket-Rebecca M. Newman
- Creative Thinkers
- The Wright Song-Monty Edwards
- Terse Verse-James Foley
- Cutting Reply-Sharron Hough
- Right Way Down-Sally Murphy
- She Wanted to Write a Poem-Abbey Fields
- Tick-Tock-Sharron Hough
- Life with Art Is Never Boring (Lucky You're So Good at Drawing!)-Nanci Nott
- The Boy with the Dynamite Idea: How Blowing Stuff up Can Lead to Great Things-Cristy Burne
- Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck Make Sense of Smell-Cristy Burne
- 7am-Kaz Campbell
- A Gardener's Guide to Poetry-Meg Mckinlay
- Word Magic-Amber Moffat
- Creature Features
- How to Be a Dragon Egg-Rebecca M. Newman
- Puppy Love-Lisa Van Der Wielen
- Greedy-Sally Murphy
- Nightsong-Sioban Timmer
- Flight-Renae Hayward
- To Be a Jellyfish-Jake Bamford
- Whale Shark-Raewyn Caisley
- A Flock of Haiku-Dianne Wolfer
- Cockatoos-Carol Millner
- May Magpie-Julie Watts
- Pelican-Barbara Helena Hostalek
- Peacock Patrol-Teena Raffa-Mulligan
- The Sleeping Cat-Julie Watts
- The View From Here
- Fremantle Harbour-Meg Mckinlay
- On a Bush Camp-Alison A. Ferguson
- Rain!-Carol Millner
- The View from Here-Suzanne Gratwick
- Autumn Leaves-Sian Turner
- Bioluminescence-Christabel Seneque
- Bibra Lake-S. E. Dennis
- Moments at the Ocean-Louise Burlinson
- Birak-Cass Lynch
- Heading Home
- Sunday, 3pm-Amber Moffat
- Umbrella Tree-Teena Raffa-Mulligan
- cloudy day-Michael Buckingham Gray
- Hoist the Colours-Sioban Timmer
- Haiku-Jake Dennis
- from Sister Heart-Sally Morgan
- Nightmare Nights-Xanthe Turner
- Wind Spirit-Cheryl Kickett-Tucker
- Lines-Amber Moffat
- You Are Here-Jen Banyard
- Glossary of Noongar Words
- Poets
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
- Editors & Illustrator
- Copyright
