Thirteen ways of remembering Ted Hughes

Teachers’ words should not be ‘How to write’ but ‘How to try to say what you really mean’ – which … More

Mike Ferguson reviews Making Poetry Happen

‘Making Poetry Happen is a fundamental resource for all English teachers for the way if collates both thinking about … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

My blog post yesterday about the stationery thing provoked more responses than I ever imagined it would. Among the … More

One of the most powerful performances on my old Faber cassette tape of Ted Hughes reading his poems is ‘Bride … More

The third Writing Research Across Borders conference takes place this week in Paris. I will be presenting a poster of … More

Teachers’ views of creativity is my new research article exploring poetry writing pedagogy. Here is the Abstract: Discourses of creativity in … More

It was the best of times. Jean Sprackland and I were tutoring the dream group at Totleigh Barton for a … More

It was the best of times. Jean Sprackland and I were tutoring a poetry course at Totleigh Barton, the Arvon … More

I once saw Michael Rosen teach a theatre full of tearfully happy children and adults these wonderful nonsense word games … More