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Finally, in Food for Life, the one serious poem in the book, Gez looks at the problem of anorexia, and makes a thought-provoking plea for sanity in a world where kids are bombarded with impossibly-skinny body images that damage their own self-worth.

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Lauren lives on a grim housing estate that most people would probably describe, in a word, as 'soulless'. It could almost be Gdansk or Romania, but it's actually in the North of England. Lauren's life isn't very colourful, either. Her mum has a succession of boyfriends, the latest, Jay, has a nasty habit of blundering into her room 'by mistake' in the middle of the night.

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Gez Walsh burst onto the poetry scene in 1997 armed with his first collection of children's verse, The Spot on My Bum: Horrible Poems for Horrible Children, which was rapidly to become a cult classic. Written in response to his dyslexic son's need for stimulating, approachable reading material, Gez decided to use humour as his tool to encourage interest. Quickly realising he'd hit on a successful method of providing reluctant readers with enth...