After writing a new poem, "I Did Not Choose" for #NationalPoetryDay last week, I was overjoyed when a day later, a teacher from Scotland got in touch via Twitter to let me know that she was going to use the poem to inspire a poetry lesson with her class of 10 and 11 year olds. She thought it was a great way to get the children thinking about #Choices past, present and future, as they prepare themselves for the transition from primary to secondary school. The inspirational tea

This year's National Poetry Day in the UK is on 7th October 2021. I love the theme: "Choice" is such an evocative word and everyone will have a their own personal response to what that word means: maybe a million different things all at once. I've written two poems to celebrate #NationalPoetryDay. Both are inspired by my own childhood experiences of what choice meant to me and how those young imaginings still live strong within me today. To still be inspired as an adult, by a