Kate O'Neil
  • About Kate
  • POEMS FOR CHILDREN
    • Barefoot
    • Gargoyle Guile
    • POEMS FROM 'LET IN THE STARS'
      • High Achievers
      • Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout
      • Sondry Folk
    • Maximouse
    • The Back of Beyond
    • Thackaringas
    • Sea Sparkle
  • KATE'S COOL POEMS
  • TRUMPETINGS
    • Trump l'oeil
    • Sound the Trump
    • Thoughts of a Very Rattled Sabre
    • The Art of the Heel
    • Bulldusted
    • Wall
  • OTHER POEMS
    • Lament of the kangaroo gargoyle on the clock tower – Sydney University
    • Tom Ugly's Spirit Talks Back
    • “Giraffe Removals. All Suburbs.” (Sydney billboard)
    • Eternity
    • Cell Door Open
    • Animal Feed Available at Restaurant
    • Happy as Larry
    • Hosts
    • Carnival of the Animals
  • BUZZINGS FROM THE BEES IN MY BONNET
    • On Being Elocuted
    • Poetry and the Role of the Toe in Scansion
    • Some Thoughts on teaching Don Quixote.
    • John Thelwall: “Citizen” John, political activist, atheist reprobate, acquitted felon, poet, Professor of Elocution and speech therapist.
    • On 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Contact Kate
  • Shop
  • Product
  • About Kate
  • POEMS FOR CHILDREN
    • Barefoot
    • Gargoyle Guile
    • POEMS FROM 'LET IN THE STARS'
      • High Achievers
      • Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout
      • Sondry Folk
    • Maximouse
    • The Back of Beyond
    • Thackaringas
    • Sea Sparkle
  • KATE'S COOL POEMS
  • TRUMPETINGS
    • Trump l'oeil
    • Sound the Trump
    • Thoughts of a Very Rattled Sabre
    • The Art of the Heel
    • Bulldusted
    • Wall
  • OTHER POEMS
    • Lament of the kangaroo gargoyle on the clock tower – Sydney University
    • Tom Ugly's Spirit Talks Back
    • “Giraffe Removals. All Suburbs.” (Sydney billboard)
    • Eternity
    • Cell Door Open
    • Animal Feed Available at Restaurant
    • Happy as Larry
    • Hosts
    • Carnival of the Animals
  • BUZZINGS FROM THE BEES IN MY BONNET
    • On Being Elocuted
    • Poetry and the Role of the Toe in Scansion
    • Some Thoughts on teaching Don Quixote.
    • John Thelwall: “Citizen” John, political activist, atheist reprobate, acquitted felon, poet, Professor of Elocution and speech therapist.
    • On 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Contact Kate
  • Shop
  • Product
Search

About Kate

Picture
Kate has written poetry, mostly for children, since her school days. Her poems have appeared in publications such as:

The Voice, the magazine of the Speech and Drama Association of NSW ed Zita Denholm.
Prints Charming anthologies ed Sally Odgers

The Caterpillar Magazine
The NSW School Magazine
Poetica Christi anthologies
Toolangi C J Dennis Poetry competition anthologies
Prints Charming Anthologies   ed Sally Odgers
the best of Today's Little Ditty 2016 compiled by Michelle Heidenrich Barnes
Wish Upon a Southern Star ed Shelley Chappell 2017

Happy Poems  ed Roger McGough  Macmillan 2018
The Head that Wears A Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens   The Emma Press 2018

Moonstruck  ed Roger Stevens. Poems to commemorate the moon landing.
      Otter-Barry Books   Publication date: June 2019
Whirlagust  The Yaffle Prize Anthology 2019
Azuria Winter 2019  (Geelong writers inc)
Heroines Anthology 2019   neoperennialpress


Picture
Let in the Stars

In 2014 Kate was short-listed for the inaugural  Manchester Writing for Children Prize.

Three of her poems appear in the competition anthology Let in the Stars:
High Achievers, Paragliders  Bald Hill Lookout  and  Sondry Folk. 


The book is now available to buy online from both Manchester Children’s Book Festival bookshop: http://www.mcbf.org.uk/books and from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk


“This powerful collection of moving, clever and funny work sends an important message that poetry for children must be taken seriously, must be cherished and must be made available.”  Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy

Poet and educator Mandy Coe came to the Manchester Writing School at MMU in late 2013 on a mission. Troubled by a severe decline in the number of publishers launching new poetry for children, and the lack of opportunities for writers of children’s poems to reach an audience in print, she made an ardent case for the genre’s place on bookshelves. Galvanised by Mandy’s passion, Carol Ann Duffy and her team in the School launched an international search for the best new poetry written for children. Thousands of poems were submitted and the work of 30 poets – based in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Uganda, and the USA – was selected by Mandy, Imtiaz Dharker and Philip Gross, and collected into a beautifully illustrated anthology: Let in the Stars.

___


Proudly powered by Weebly
  • About Kate
  • POEMS FOR CHILDREN
    • Barefoot
    • Gargoyle Guile
    • POEMS FROM 'LET IN THE STARS'
      • High Achievers
      • Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout
      • Sondry Folk
    • Maximouse
    • The Back of Beyond
    • Thackaringas
    • Sea Sparkle
  • KATE'S COOL POEMS
  • TRUMPETINGS
    • Trump l'oeil
    • Sound the Trump
    • Thoughts of a Very Rattled Sabre
    • The Art of the Heel
    • Bulldusted
    • Wall
  • OTHER POEMS
    • Lament of the kangaroo gargoyle on the clock tower – Sydney University
    • Tom Ugly's Spirit Talks Back
    • “Giraffe Removals. All Suburbs.” (Sydney billboard)
    • Eternity
    • Cell Door Open
    • Animal Feed Available at Restaurant
    • Happy as Larry
    • Hosts
    • Carnival of the Animals
  • BUZZINGS FROM THE BEES IN MY BONNET
    • On Being Elocuted
    • Poetry and the Role of the Toe in Scansion
    • Some Thoughts on teaching Don Quixote.
    • John Thelwall: “Citizen” John, political activist, atheist reprobate, acquitted felon, poet, Professor of Elocution and speech therapist.
    • On 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Contact Kate
  • Shop
  • Product