17 July 2023
It has been 20 years since the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) started running its annual CLPE Children's Poetry Award (CLiPPA), after the Signal Poetry Award was discontinued in 2003. Charlotte Hacking, learning and programmes director at CLPE, says: "We didn't want that award to be lost, because there isn't any other children's literature award that solely recognises the importance of children's poetry. And we know throughout our 50 years of research at CLPE just how essential poetry is as a genre for children."