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Paula Green

Poet and Children's Writer, profile published in The School Library, Issue 3, 2009

I have always written, but I like to set myself new challenges, so that every poem and every story feels fresh, like an adventure. With Macaroni Moon I wanted to write poems to make myself and (hopefully) children laugh. When I write poetry, I want to make music, I want to feel things and I want to think about the world in different ways. When I write stories, I still want to make words sing, but I am also discovering and falling in love with character.
School visits are extremely rewarding. I am keen (nervously!) to test new stories and poems on children, because they are the audience that matters most to me. I love question time, because there is always a question that surprises me, and makes me think about what I am doing in a new light. I love the energy that fills the room when I take a poetry workshop, and the students’ poems that make my heart beat faster. And I love making up poems on the spot with large groups of students. It’s like jamming with words; we are the orchestra or band, the words are the drums, bass and keyboards.