Roger Stevens (poet)


Roger Stevens is an English poet, author and a musician. He founded and runs the award-winning website, which encourages children to write and publish their poetry and offers guidance and ideas for teachers on now to make the teaching of poetry fun and rewarding. He has written 24 books, has poems in over 200 children's anthologies and his teenage verse novel, The Journal of Danny Chaucer, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Roger's first children's books were The Howen and then Creeper. His first solo collection of children's poems was I Did Not Eat the Goldfish . Other children's poetry books include The Jumble Book for Dyslexia Action, A Million Brilliant Poems which was shortlisted for the award. He has written two books with children's author Brian Moses - Able Writers in Your School and Olympic Poems his best-selling poetry book to date. In 2012 he published a new work of fiction The Comic Café
Roger played in a local band from the age of 13-18. He was a founder member of Rubber Rhino, a theatrical rock band, in the 1970s. He was a founder member of comedy rock band The Killer Rabbits. He released a solo album I Don't Wish to Alarm You in 2013.