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Mandy Coe shows you how you can create your own poem inspired by the cuckoo's journeys across the world and music from 'The Carnival of the Animals'.

Author of seven books, Mandy Coe, writes for adults and young people. Her latest collection for children, ‘Belonging Street’ (Otter Barry Books) was selected as one of the Independent’s top ten poetry books (2020). Her work on teaching poetry has been published by the TES, Bloomsbury and Cambridge University Press. Her poems can be heard on ‘Talking Poetry’, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Schools Radio and at the Poetry Archive.

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