Glenys Eskdale

One of my past lives, as a primary school teacher/librarian, inspired me to enter the world of children’s literature and create a little magic there myself. For me, poetry is a mixture of imagination and magic. I like to take tiny slices of everyday life and express them in a way that makes those experiences special. Most of my poems are for children aged from five to twelve.

My work has been published in children’s magazines in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Recently my poem Hooligan Hounds was highly commended in the C J Dennis Poetry for Children competition.

I live in Melbourne, at the foothills of the Dandenongs.