And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More
Tag: Poetry Pedagogy
Their age now
Having not succeeded at school, I’ve always thought of poetry as the holidays, rather than term-time. Hugo Williams I went … More
Spun in drafts
Damp white imprints dog the feet; snowbound trolley, snowbound street. Her tip of glove to lip and cheek, “Goodbye.” Go. … More
Heaney’s Pedagogy
A comment Mark Robinson made in the days following Seamus Heaney’s death in August resonated with me. He said he … More
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: 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
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