Sue Hardy-Dawson

Author

Sue Hardy-Dawson is a Yorkshire born poet and artist who has
been published in many poetry anthologies. She worked with children for twenty years and took a degree in creative writing and literature from the Open University. She is dyslexic and takes a special interest in encouraging reluctant readers and writers.

Her first solo collection of her poems Where Zebras Go was shortlisted for the CLiPPA Award in 2018 and also longlisted for the North Somerset Teachers’ book award. More recently, she published a joint poetry collection with Liz Brownlee and Roger Stevens, Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems.

Discover more

View Sue’s profile, watch her read a poem and download teaching resources at CLPE’s Poetryline.

Read Sue’s articles for the Children’s Poetry Summit: Why Poetry Matters and The Room I Write In & Cathartic Writing.

Watch and hear Sue reading some of her poems over at the World Story Telling Cafe.

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