Haiku Poem, Acrostic Poem, Rhyming Poem

with Maxine Beneba Clarke

Join award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke for a special poetry workshop. Maxine will guide the group through the creation of a haiku poem, a short acrostic poem, and a short rhyming poem.

This session is part of the Melbourne Kids Book Festival Day 2 program for Page-turners (Ages 8-13)

About the author

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over fourteen books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the critically acclaimed bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the UK’s Kate Greenaway medal, and the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike (illustrated by Van T Rudd), which won the 2019 Boston Globe Horn Prize for Best Picture Book. Her poetry collections include Carrying the World, which won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, How Decent Folk Behave, and It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people, which won the 2024 ABIA for Book of the Year for Younger Readers. Maxine is the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at the University of Melbourne.