The value of poetry is that it should matter … first to the writer and then to the reader. Michael … More
Tag: The Poetry Book for Primary Schools
A note from Seamus Heaney
During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy … More
Lifesaving Poems: ‘Underneath the mathematics of time’
Phil Bowen gave me this poem, written by a ten-year-old girl, in 1998 to illustrate a writing game he submitted … More
‘I am fragments’: a note from Seamus Heaney
In the spring of 1998 I wrote to Seamus Heaney. I asked him to consider writing a Foreword to the … More
Scribbling With Delight
When I speak to trainee primary school teachers about their views of poetry I am often struck by their divergent … More
Lifesaving Poems: Shel Silverstein’s ‘Not Me’
I wrote yesterday about pitching poems in the classroom which are aimed not at the crowd but perhaps one … More
Lifesaving Poems: Charles Causley’s ‘Who?’
Who? Who is that child I see wandering, wandering down by the side of the quivering stream? Why does … More
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