Here are the text and ppt presentations of my NATE Conference 2014 keynote speech on The Power of Poetry.
PDF text: The Power of Poetry NATE Conference 2014
PPT: The Power of Poetry
Creativity, Confidence and Challenge, The Write Team project final report, is available as a free download here: The Write Team – Creativity, Confidence and Challenge
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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. My most recent books are Deck Shoes (Impress Books, 2019), a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019). In 2023 I will publish The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, with Blue Diode Press. My current research project, with Sue Dymoke from Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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While at school I learned Kavanagh, Keats, Yeats, Plath, poems line by line. The aim of each class was to listen to the teacher read, take her ideas of the poem word for word, underline the lines she told us to note, learn them. Recite them. Move on. I think it was such a pity we didn’t approach poetry differently and it’s refreshing to know there are educators like you, doing so now. Poetry matters, words matter, communication matters. Poetry is communication.
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Your talk was very much appreciated by the large audience at our Conference. Many thanks. I’m sorry we didn’t have time to talk afterwards.
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Hi John
thank you so much for inviting me and for the warmth of the conference reception. I enjoyed myself enormously.
As ever with best wishes and thanks
Anthony
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Inspired and moved by your speech today: thank you
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Dear Helena
Thank you so much for letting me know.
It is good to know what I said resonated with people.
I had a great time doing it.
As ever with best wishes
Anthony
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Interesting talk Ant, and certainly the kind of process i try to use with degree students too. Of course the crunch comes when it is necessary for students/children to show they have taken something on board and can now apply it for themselves…
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