With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are peerless when it comes to putting our deepest emotions ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

Students can read the text of the poem before ... John Agard introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children, including 'A date with spring' and 'Hopaloo kangaroo'.

Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than poetry.