Winner of the CLPE Poetry Awards 2011

Philip Gross's classics of poetry for children, Manifold Manor, The All-Nite Cafe and Scratch City, set a benchmark in the 1990s for opening doors to rich worlds of language and imagination. Off Road To Everywhere takes the challenge into a new century. These poems grow out of twenty years of creative writing work with young people, inviting readers to click out of passive consumer mode and think like writers themselves.

Sequences like `Dreams of an Inland Lighthouse Keeper' offer games, techniques and exercises to be used in writing groups for many ages. This is multi-layered poetry, playful, thoughtful and technically brilliant - as gripping in performance as it is on the page.

Inviting but completely unpatronising to young readers, welcoming to adults who think that they don't like poetry, these poems open our eyes to the world and to the riches of language as the birthright of everyone. They speak to all ages, and sit confidently on the bookshelf next to Philip Gross's prize-winning work for adults.

This book was recognised by the Clpe Poetry Award.

This book features in the following series: Children's Poetry Library, Childrens Poetry Library .

There are 96 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2010 by Salt Publishing .

Philip Gross is a writer of many parts - from prize-winning poetry to teenage novels of high suspense and unsettling depths. Son of a wartime refugee from Estonia and a Cornish schoolmaster's daughter, his work explores borderlines - between childhood and adult life, between fantasy and reality. He has two grown-up children and a grandson, and lives in Penarth with his wife Zelie. He has led writing workshops in schools for twenty years, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. Philip Gross has been shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Award. He has also written Going for Stone and Marginaliens by OUP.

This book has the following chapters:

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Camper Van Dreaming
• White Ones
• Dreams of an Inland
• Lighthouse-Keeper
• Hide
• Left Luggage From The Lost and Found
• The Gopher's Tale
• Take A City
• Petra and the Wolf
• Amelia's Lunch
• Nanny Neverley
• Master Moebius Presents .
• Love Songs in the Key of Y
• Saying When
• Short Exposures
• Fire Says
• Stone Says
• The Living Room
• In Every Room There Is One
• By Gum
• More Luggage From The Lost and Found
• In Perspective
• A Spider in
• Grandfather's Shed
• In The Lost Garden
• Shadow Party
• Tide Rising Near Tintagel
• Rain In The Rhondda
• Big Muddy Blues
• The Old Wife's Tale
• My Place
• Room Inside