Brian Merrick bas made a major contribution to the development of poetry teaching for younger children in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. CLE invited bim to look back over the decade and to select a personal list of favorite collections.
ForCLE he has written on Poetry in Performance (issue 35) and Charles Causley (issue 70). The latter article was expanded intoTalking with Charles Causley for the National Association for the Teaching of English (1989). NATE has also published his influentialExploring Poetry: 5–8 (1987) andExploring Poetry: 8–13 (1990).