Three Relatively Silly Poems
About the Poet
Nick Toczek is a writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster. He founded his poetry magazine The Little Word Machine, co-founded Moseley Community Arts Festival, and toured with his music and poetry troupe, The Stereo Graffiti Show. Moving back to Bradford in 1977, he co-founded the seminal music fanzine The Wool City Rocker and formed the band Ulterior Motives, in which he was lyricist and lead vocalist.
Since the mid-’90s, his collections of children’s poetry including ‘The Dragon Who Ate Our School’ have seen him become a best-selling children’s writer. By 2011, Toczek had worked as a visiting writer in thousands of schools, visiting dozens of countries worldwide in the course of this work. He continues to publish books and release CDs. He writes for the music magazine R2, has a book on racism due from Routledge in Spring 2015 and a collection of his best dragon poems due from Caboodle Books.
[hr]Three Relatively Silly Poems By Nick Toczek
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