Along with colleagues from the Arvon Foundation, The Open University and University of Exeter I have just begun … More
Category: Research
Thinking allowed?
Photo credit: from Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon (p 138) This is a poster presentation I gave at … More
Making Poetry Happen
Announcing the publication of Making Poetry Happen: Transforming the Poetry Classroom (Bloomsbury, 2015). Making Poetry Happen provides a valuable resource … More
Writing Research Across Borders (a new poem)
I am delighted to have a new poem Writing Research Across Borders (2014): Poster Sessions in Hinterland With thanks to Judi Sutherland … More
The power of poetry (free download) #NATEconf
Here are the text and ppt presentations of my NATE Conference 2014 keynote speech on The Power of Poetry. PDF … More
Teachers’ views of creativity in poetry writing
The third Writing Research Across Borders conference takes place this week in Paris. I will be presenting a poster of … More
Lifesaving Poems: Michael Rosen’s ‘Everybody Verybody’
I once saw Michael Rosen teach a theatre full of tearfully happy children and adults these wonderful nonsense word games … More
Lifesaving Poems: e e cummings’s ‘in Just’
I I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). … More
Lifesaving Poems: Tom Raworth’s ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’
As I say in my previous blog post, I owe my knowledge of ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’ to the … More
