The Works 4 contains poems about everything and is divided into twenty-six alphabetical sections featuring poems about:

A the ark and other creatures, B boys' stuff, C celebrations and festivals, D dinosaurs, dragons and dodos, E elements, seasons and the natural world, F friends and families, G girls' stuff, H home life, I impossible, improbable and inexplicable, J journeys, K kissing and other subjects best avoided, L love, death, war and peace, M monsters, ghosts and scary things, N north, south, east and west, O ourselves and others, P places and people, Q queens, kings and historical stuff, R rescuing the world, S senses and feelings, T teachers and school, U unpleasant poems, V viewpoints, W wonder, X words and wordplay, Y young and old, Z zapping aliens and other space poems.

It also contains teachers' notes and a glossary of terms, including explanations of different poetic forms.

This book is part of a book series called Macmillan Poetry .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 592 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2015 by Pan Macmillan .

Gaby Morgan is the Editorial Director for Poetry at Macmillan Children's Books. Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He was worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.