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Roger Stevens is a performance poet, author, musician
and artist. His poems have appeared in more than one hundred anthologies.
His latest solo collection is Why
Otters Don't Wear Socks.
Roger performs his
poetry in schools, libraries and festivals and runs creative writing
workshops for young and old. He's a member of the Poetry Society’s
PoetryClass. He plays keyboards in Damn
Right I Got the Blues.
Roger
founded the award-winning
Poetry Zone web-site, which offers young
people the chance to publish their poetry on the web and features
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Why Otters
Don't Wear Socks
This poetry book contains: laughs (including
chuckles, guffaws and grins); sad moments (some); thrills (many);
rhymes; haikus; rude words; adjectives (assorted); made up words
(including wham-wig); nonsense and a fat penguin called Pete.
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The Secret
Life of Pants
Poems chosen by Roger Stevens
These poems
about pants (and other things besides) are grouped under five themed
chapters - poems to make you laugh, to drive you mad, to make you
sick, to scare you, and thoughtful/serious or sad poems - and are
in a wide variety of genres and styles, from haiku and limericks,
to sonnets and sestinas. And, of course, there are some poems about
pants!
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On My
Way To School I Saw a Dinosaur Roger's first collection of poems
for younger readers follows a year in the life of Frog Class. Find
out what happens when a dinosaur comes to school and what lives in
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Searching
For Blue Sea Glass
Roger's
first collection for adults, is full of the fun and quirky attitude
to life that has made him a favourite
with younger readers. It features a wide variety of poems selected
from his writings of the past fifteen years.
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Taking
My Human For A Walk
Poems
by Pets - chosen by Roger Stevens
Have you ever wondered what your pets really think of you? Taking
My Human For a Walk reveals the truth at last!
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The
Monster That Ate The Universe
Not-very-scary
Monsters, Hallowe'en, snow, dim dinosaurs, love, rocket science,
embarrassing parents and a school for chickens. All human life and
some odd animal life can be found here in Roger Stevens' funny,
sad, serious and strange new collection of poems.
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Vikings
Don't Wear Pants
The
poetry book that puts the fun back into History! Find out
why you should never
swim in the moat, how Henry the Eighth went to
bed and why teeth used to catch fire.
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The Journal
Of Danny Chaucer (Poet)
An
amazing year awaits Danny Chaucer (poet). A
new guitar, a new band, a new girlfriend and a hit record.
In Danny’s dreams…
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I Did Not
Eat The Goldfish and other poems Roger's first solo collection.
Find out who did eat the goldfish and what Judy really thinks
about chasing sticks. Laughter, sadness, life and death. It's all
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Killer
Rabbits - Dodgy Derek's etc
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last the legendary Dodgy Derek album
now available on a CD. Includes the hit (ish)
single Captain Marvellous and other stuff besides.
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Wonky
Finger - Live at Staplecroft Village Hall
Wonky Finger
(or the Staplecroft Super-group as locals know them) perform all
their acclaimed hits for the first time on this live album.
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Why Otters Don't Wear Socks - Audio Book
Roger reads 59 of his favourite poems
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At
the Meeting of the Earth and the Air
A whole bunch of songs that Roger wrote with
his pal in 1968 |
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