Funny, sad, angry, ecstatic ... From first dates and first snogs, fights and splitting up, to finding and losing best mates, these poems are both thoroughly contemporary and timeless, making this an ideal collection for use in KS3 English and PSHE classes as well as for individual reading for children ages 11 and up. Poets include Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell, John Clare, W B Yeats, Brian Patten, Helen Dunmore, Brian Moses, Carole Satyamurti, as well as many other outstanding poets.

Divided into three sections - love, hate, best mates - the arrangement of poems makes fascinating juxtapositions between classic and contemporary poems, demonstrating the universal nature of these emotions.

This book is part of a book series called Poems About .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Hachette Children's Group .

Andrew Fusek Peters has written and edited many books for all ages, many critically Polly Peters is a former English and Drama teacher. She was previously Head of Drama at a sixth form college and currently works as a youth/community theatre leader, director and playwright.