Ten Poems About Grandparents

Who better than children to find the very best poems about grandparents? All the poems in this delightful selection have been chosen by pupils at Headington School with their English teacher Liz Soar. We're also including two beautiful poems written by the students themselves, together with one by Liz Soar.

The pupils' choices reflect the multicultural world in which they're growing up. There's a poem in three languages about a joyful reunion with a grandparent arriving from overseas and another in which a Muslim grandmother raises eyebrows in a posh department store by washing her feet in the sink in the ladies' room.

But the abiding spirit of the selection is the sense of safety and comfort we feel in the company of a beloved grandparent.

Poems by Tiffany Atkinson, John Burnside, Katie Cleverley, Vivki Feaver, Joan Johnston, Katerina De Jong/Anastasia Matveeva/Minnah Rashid, Mohja Kahf, Derek Mahon, Liz Soar and Andrew Waterhouse.

Cover illustration by Kathy Morgan.