Jean Sprackland, Lifesaving Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing
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Jean Sprackland, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing
From the archives: The Birkdale Nightingale, by Jean Sprackland
Adélia Prado, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Ambition, Being a Poet, Beverly Rycroft, Billy Collins, Blogging, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Creative Writing, Creativity, Death, Depression, Duncan Kramer, Dying, English Teaching, Gratitude, Health, Illness, Influence, Jean Sprackland, Lawrence Sail, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poetry, Lifesaving Poets, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Michael Laskey, Naomi Jaffa, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Peter Sansom, PGCE, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Blogs, Poetry Exhaustion, Poets, Primary PGCE, Reading, Reading Poetry, Remission, Roy Blackman, Teaching, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Writing
Why do it?
Being a Poet, Education, Jean Sprackland, Joanna Cutts, Life Lessons, Michael Laskey, Naomi Jaffa, Peter Carpenter, Peter Sansom, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing, Writing Poems
Influences: my first reader
Arvon Foundation, Blogging, Bloodaxe, Brendan Kennelly, Carl Sandburg, Charles Causley, Daydreaming, Derek Mahon, Duncan Kramer, Education, English Teaching, Galway Kinnell, Gerard Benson, Gratitude, Jean Sprackland, Les Murray, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poets, Malcolm Doney, Mary Oliver, Peter Sansom, Philip Gross, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, Robert Frost, Russell Brand, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Teaching, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Ted Hughes, UA Fanthorpe, WH Auden
The most read Lifesaving Poems of 2014
Ann Sansom, Arvon Foundation, Education, Edwin Morgan, Jean Sprackland, John Ash, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Writers in Schools, Writing, Writing Poems
How to be a writing tutor
Ann Sansom, Being a Poet, Cliff Yates, Edwin Morgan, Ian McMillan, Jean Sprackland, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poets, Marie Howe, Mark Robinson, Michael Laskey, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Raymond Carver, Seamus Heaney, Sian Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Tomas Transtromer
I have not read a book in six months
Being a Poet, Eavan Boland, Failure, Greenbelt, Jean Sprackland, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing
To failure!
Christian McEwen, Cliff Yates, Fiona Robyn, Jean Sprackland, Joy Katz, Kevin Prufer, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Robert Hass, Seth Godin, Stephen Pressfield
Books that changed me in 2013
Anthony Caleshu, August Kleinzahler, Fiona Moore, Jean Sprackland, Life Lessons, Margaret Avison, Matthew Dickman, Michael Symmons Roberts, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Raymond Carver, Rose Cook, Ted Kooser, Tom Andrews
Poetry highlights of 2013
Ambition, Andy Brown, Ann Gray, Ann Sansom, Anne Lamott, Anthony Wilson, Being a Poet, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Carol Ann Duffy, Chris Southgate, Gratitude, Hugo Williams, Jean Sprackland, Jo Shapcott, Lawrence Sail, Mandy Coe, Maura Dooley, Michael Donaghy, Michael Laskey, Michael Symmons Roberts, Naomi Jaffa, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Peter Carpenter, Peter Sansom, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Raymond Carver, Sian Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Writing Poems
Gratitude
Arvon Foundation, Education, Jean Sprackland, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing
Lifesaving Poems: Charles Simic’s ‘My Shoes’
Arvon Foundation, Education, Jean Sprackland, Lifesaving Poems, Matthew Hollis, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing
Lifesaving Poems: Matthew Hollis’s ‘Wintering’
Ambition, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Health, Jean Sprackland, Life Lessons, Love for Now, Lymphoma, NHL, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Poetry, Poets, Radiotherapy, Remission, Riddance
Losing my ambition
Andy Brown, Ann Gray, Anthony Wilson, Cliff Yates, Creativity, Deryn Rees-Jones, Education, Ferenc Juhasz, Ian McMillan, Initial Teacher Education, Jean Sprackland, Lifesaving Poems, Michael Laskey, Peter Carpenter, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Exhaustion, Poetry Matters, Poets, Raymond Carver, Reading, Research, Sian Hughes, Teaching, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Tom Raworth, Wendy Cope, Writers in Schools, Writing
Lifesaving Poems: Tom Raworth’s ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’
Galway Kinnell, Jean Sprackland, John Logan, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Michael Laskey, Peter Carpenter, Peter Sansom, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Raymond Carver, Robert Rheder, Seamus Heaney
Lifesaving Poems: Galway Kinnell’s ‘Saint Francis and the Sow’
Jean Sprackland, Lifesaving Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing
