The Bath Festivals‘ Write Team was a creative writing project designed to develop pupil confidence and engagement in their learning. The … More
Tag: Poetry in Education
Making Poetry Matter
In 2007 Sue Dymoke, Andrew Lambirth and I got together and decided we were going to apply to the ESRC … More
Lifesaving Poems: Kathleen Jamie’s ‘The Way We Live’
Sometimes you do not get a poem, or what a poet is up to, straight away. In the case of … More
Lifesaving Poems: Carl Sandburg’s ‘Buffalo Dusk’
Apart from e e cummings and the genius Anon, one of my chief discoveries in the Voices and Junior Voices series that I … 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
Foal Failure
I first came across ‘Birth of the Foal’ at the recommendation of the great Cliff Yates. He told me he’d been … More
Recent Research on Poetry in Education
Below is a summary of some recent research on progress in pupils’ poetry writing and teachers’ metaphors of poetry writing … More
New Research on Teachers’ Conceptualisations of Poetry Writing
via edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz My latest research paper is now published in English Teaching: Practice and Critique Volume 9, Number 3, December … More
Lifesaving Poems 