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Passing on the love… teaching poetry
I have always loved poetry… and written (or tried to write) poems almost as long as I have been writing anything. I was going to show you a couple of my early attempts but they are just too awful… my...
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Who burns for the perfection of paper
This is a poem I taught many, many times to my students. I wish I’d had the opportunity to share this reading with them. Having read it out loud so often, it is interesting to hear how the poet reads...
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A short poem… with a lot to talk about
As an English teacher I was always looking for poems which would resonate with our young people intrigue and engage them. Because my students were not always in the mood to work… or should I say,...
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A creepy little poem
When I was teaching I was always on the look out for poems for my students; despite themselves they liked poetry (and many of them wrote it which was wonderful!) However, because it was an English...
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Ugh!! Cockroaches!!
I was surprised to read correspondence in the national press that poetry is no longer popular with young people? Really? Have the writers of these reports, or the pronouncers of these statements taken...
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Marvellous!
Some poets speak across the centuries in an open and understandable way to most people. When I was teaching, being old school I wanted my students to have a an education without too many borders and...
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Practising poetry
From a very early age, when I was really quite young, say about six, I made and wrote poems; to be fair most of my six-year-old attempts were as you would expect a six-year-old’s to be – but as I got...
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