The Virtual Kite Zoo Poetry Anthology

I quote the list verbatim - I haven't checked out any of the items. Some may only have a brief passing reference to kites.

Title Author or compiler	Publisher, Date
The dragon on the wall and other poems COOK, STANLEY	Blackie, 1989
Like it or not EWART, GAVIN	The Bodley Head, 1992
Strange goings-on HENDRY, DIANA	Viking, 1995
Look at it this way!: poems for young people KIRKUP, JAMES	Rockingham Press, 1994
Orange paw marks MAGORIAN, MICHELLE	Viking, 1991
You be good and I'll be night MERRIAM, EVE	Mulberry Books, 1988
The dummy's delimma and other poems MOLE, JOHN	Hodder Children's Books, 1999
Barley barley WADE, BARRIE	Oxford Univertity Press, 1991
Anthologies:
Between the Lines	Heinemann Educational Books, 1990
Funnybunch: a new Puffin book of funny verse	Viking, 1993
The Orchard book of funny poems	Orchard Books, 1993
Playtime poems	Oxford University Press, 1995
A poem, she said: a selection of poems by young people from Essex	Essex County Council Education Department, 1998
Sit on the roof and holler	Puffin, 1991
Sunflakes: poems for children	Clarion Books, 1992
The Bees Knees	Stride, 1990
Them and us	The Bodley Head, 1993
A year full of poems	Oxford University Press, 1991
A year full of poems	Oxford University Press, 1996
Young voices: poetry by young people in Staffordshire Willis, Norman (Foreward); Rhodes, John (Intro)	Staffordshire County Arts Service, 1992

All the above should be obtainable in the UK from any public library by inter-library loan from the Poetry Library.

If you check out any of the above references, please let me know what you find, and I'll add it to the list for the benefit of those who come after you.

Here are a few more kite poems on the web:
From Jeff and Nancy's family home page, a collection of simple kite poems.
Some poems about kites and Spring.
Four kite poems set to music: "A quartet for strings, winds, kids and a spring day" from Brad Burg's book.

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