The Fantasy Kid collects together Rupert Loydell's poems for children, teenagers and the young-at-heart, all of which have been test-driven by the author at schools, festivals, libraries and readings around the country. Whether making excuses at school, pondering questions about the nature of chocolate, serenading slugs, saying good bye to a starfish, introducing us to Doctor Fizz and Alvin the Aardvark, or remembering holidays with distant relatives, these poems are witty, irreverent, memorable and odd - although this book has a serious side too ... Look out! The Fantasy Kid is coming to your town, and your world will never be the same again.

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

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Salt Publishing .

Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of many books of poetry, including A Conference of Voices and the forthcoming Boombox!, as well as several collaborative works; he also paints small abstract paintings. He lives in a creekside village in Cornwall with his family and far too many books and CDs.

This book has the following chapters:

Contents

Acknowledgements

The TV Went Away Today

Poem to Order

We Don't Do That One Anymore

A Nice School

The Teachers

a (o)

Wilberforce Grommett-Smith

The Fantasy Kid

If You Were Made Of Chocolate

Excuses

Morning Poem

Full

Sea

Dusk

Sunset

Days of Rain

River, in Flood

Snow

Frost

Tonight

Winter Triptych

Spider

Happy Hippy Poem

Timeless

Spiral Weld

Doctor Fizz

Alpine Zoo, Innsbruck

Found Animal Rights Poem

Teflon Finial And Alvin The Aardvark

Slugs

Poetic Blues

A Few Moments of Freedom

M6 Motorbike

Back Seat Driver

This Train

Truant & Fly

I Surfed Home On The Motorway

Who's A Lucky Boy Then?

A Right Charlie

No One Made MashLike My Grandad!

Distant Relations

Glorious

Norfolk Broads

Keeping the Same Tension

Me and the Missus

The Pedlar of Winds

Tree Stump

November the Fifth Love Poem

Firework Finale

Missing Persons

Nobody

Clown

My Pebble

River

Poem For A Girl Putting A Starfish Back Into The Sea

Lullaby