Art is an attitude

Here is a quotation from Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception that I have been meditating on for a while now. I have … 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

A comment Mark Robinson made in the days following Seamus Heaney’s death in August resonated with me. He said he … More

I I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). … More

As I say in my previous blog post, I owe my knowledge of ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’ to the … More

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

I am a little late in writing these reflections prompted by the tenth anniversary of 9/11. What I want … More