Here is a quotation from Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception that I have been meditating on for a while now. I have … More
Tag: Research
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
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
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
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … 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
In search of the ‘Tyger’: power relationships and poetry in the classroom
When I began teaching the Year 5 class of children whose work would form the basis of my doctoral … More
Poetry and 9/11
I am a little late in writing these reflections prompted by the tenth anniversary of 9/11. What I want … More