Coral Rumble Award Winning Poet Caterpillar Poetry Prize Author Poetry Workshops Inset Training

Here's the formal bit for teachers to read.

Coral Rumble is a popular, Multi-award winning poet and author. She has worked as a poet and performer for many years, and now specializes in writing and performing for children. She was featured in Favourite Poets published by Hodder Children’s Books. Michael Rosen has commented, “Rumble has a dash and delight about her work”.

Coral has had five collections published – Creatures, Teachers and Family Features, Breaking the Rules, My Teacher’s as Wild as a Bison, Riding a Lion and Things That Should Be in a Poem.

Her collections have been featured in the Best Books supplement of Junior Education Magazine, and selected as ‘choices’ by The Children’s Poetry Bookshelf. Riding a Lion (illustrated by Emily Ford) was shortlisted for the North Somerset Teachers Award 2021, Things That Should Be in a Poem (Cover and illustrations by Shih-Yu Lin) won the Spark! School Book Awards 2023. Her verse novel Little Light (Cover by Anna Morrison, illustrated by Shih-Yu Lin) was shortlisted for a ukla award 2023, and her debut prose novel jakub's otter (Cover by Anna Morrison, illustrated by Twink) won the Spark! School Book Awards 2025.

She has contributed to nearly 200 anthologies for children. You will find her work in various education trade books and, being a football fan, she is very proud that one of her poems was included in a poetry exhibition at the National Football Museum in Preston!

In the past she has contributed to the National Poetry Day resources for schools, produced by the Poetry Society, and works with the Poetry Society on other ventures, like the Trafalgar Square tree project, Look North More Often. Coral is Poetry Editor for the Writers’ Advice Centre in London. She also contributed many poems to the popular Cbeebies TV programmes, Poetry Pie and The Rhyme Rocket. She also wrote the Pinkasaurus stories, that have been broadcast on Cbeebies Radio.

In addition, Coral has delivered inset training for teachers, both independently, and on behalf of the Poetry Society and the british Council, here and abroad, and works regularly on education projects. She enjoys helping children of all ages and abilities, to write poems they can be proud of, and works on the A.i.m high scheme, organised by poet Brian Moses and Authors Abroad.

Coral performs and gives workshops at art centres, museums, bookshops, libraries, theatres and festivals, as well as in schools, in the UK and abroad. She has given workshops in some unusual places, too, the grandest venue being Buckingham Palace!

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