- Source: Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a British children's poet, performer, and educator. He has published many collections of poetry for children with publishers such as Bloomsbury and HarperCollins, and has performed and led workshops at schools and festivals around the world. Seigal has won several awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Book Award and the People's Book Prize. He has written and performed for BBC Television and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on numerous occasions.
Seigal's poem ‘I Don’t Like Poetry’ is featured on the website of the Poetry Foundation and is widely anthologised. He has an MA in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he studied under Michael Rosen. Seigal also writes for adults, and his work has appeared in magazines such as Poetry Wales.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Seigal gave away many of his books online, stating: “This is an incredibly difficult, scary time. However, my job is based on sharing joy, and I am determined that I will keep doing this, in whatever form it takes.”
Awards
UKLA Book Award (2025) - Longlist
Reading Rocks Book Award (2024) - Winner
Laugh Out Loud Book Award (2023) - Winner
Caterpillar Poetry Prize (2023) - Runner-Up
The People's Book Prize (2022) - Winner
Laugh Out Loud Book Award (2020) - Winner
Laugh Out Loud Book Award (2017) - Shortlist
Bibliography
I Am (Collins, 2024) (illustrated by Evelline Andrya)
Poetry is Not for Me (Collins, 2023) (illustrated by Rebecca Burgess)
Who Let the Words Out? (Bloomsbury, 2023) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
Yapping Away (Bloomsbury, 2021) (illustrated by Sarah Horne)
Welcome to My Crazy Life (Bloomsbury, 2020) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
I Bet I Can Make You Laugh (Bloomsbury, 2018) (illustrated by Tim Wesson)
Little Lemur Laughing (Bloomsbury, 2017) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
I Don't Like Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2016) (illustrated by Chris Piascik)
References
External links
JoshuaSeigal.co.uk
Bloomsbury.com