Award-winning performance poet, author and former Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho creates an acrostic poem live throughout the programme inspired by contributions from schools across the UK.

"I love poetry and I like to write poetry because it makes my brain active." Jaiveer, also aged 11, said he loves acrostic poems, where the first letter in each line spells a word or phrase.

The CBC's Daybreak North acrostic spring poetry competition has attracted some young poets as the show received a handful of poems written by a Grade 3 class in Fort St. John. Students ...