Lifesaving Poems: Thomas Lux’s ‘An Horatian Notion’

Photo Credit: Tatiana Wilson You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone … More

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … More

In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More

Originally posted on Lifesaving Poems:
I love the silence that descends on a classroom full of people who are all engaged…

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems posts in June 2011, back when I was using Posterous for this blog. … More

Originally posted on Lifesaving Poems:
For the last nine years at the end of the first week in July I have…

PGCE students are so dedicated. They burn with desire to be amazing. They hand in their work and have beautifully … More

‘I’ve learnt to be more confident with my ideas, because sometimes you have an idea that you just sort of … More

Below is a summary of some recent research on progress in pupils’ poetry writing and teachers’ metaphors of poetry writing … More

When I began teaching the Year 5 class of children whose work would form the basis of my doctoral … More

via youtube.com I used to be the one sitting quiet in the corner and now I am not afraid to … More

Photo: Derek Adams Some writers influence you through the pull of their imagination on your work, opening up new worlds … More

I’ll begin by promising that there’ll be times in your life as a poet when the problems that are a … More

Like a Jules Verne novel, Dana Gioia’s famous essay “Can Poetry Matter” got the future’s big picture right, but the … More

You have to hand it to Jamie Oliver for giving it a go. How he kept so positive confronting all … More

Last week I had the privilege of taking my Primary PGCE English specialists on a trip toLondonfor the final … More

Andrew Motion is my hero because he set up the Poetry Archive with Richard Carrington. He has nothing left to prove. As … More

This is the powerpoint of the paper I am giving with Debra Myhill at the Writing Across Borders II conference … More