CLiPPA Poetry Awards 2025
Shortlist for the CLiPPA 2025 Announced
Now in its third decade, the CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Childrens Education) is the UK’s leading award for published poetry for children and highlights the year’s best new poetry for children. Past winners include Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Michael Rosen and Valerie Bloom as well as current Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho. Matt Goodfellow won the 2024 CLiPPA with the highly regarded verse novel, The Final Year, and is on this year’s judging panel.
Colossal words; effervescent rhymes for the very young; poetry adventures with a family of six; funny, touching poems about our pets; and a boundary-pushing poetry dialogue, this year’s CLiPPA shortlist is typically rich and varied, and “full of magic” says poet Roger McGough, Chair of Judges.
Click on the Firefly link to find out who has been shortlisted!
