The Poetry Place

• Welcome back to Trevor's poetry place.
• WORKSHOP - resources and ideas for teachers
• P O E T R Y P U B
• Open Studio | A writer's blog
• A selection of Teachit's poetry resources
• Street Corner
• Verse Surgery
• TOUCHSTONES@Teachit

Welcome back to Trevor's poetry place.

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas. They've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind." (Catherine in Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte.)

The Gove in the Government has just sent a letter to primary schools informing them that the 'creative curriculum' is dead.  To be replaced by a more rigid teaching of subject content, we learn. Will teachers go along with that - or endeavour to subvert it?  

WORKSHOP
The workshop has dozens of resources, including

• Help with GCSE poetry
• Advice for A level teachers
• Creative Writing Ideas
• Some resources on poems and poets requested by you
• Resources on poets who are personal favourites

OPEN STUDIO
Writer at work.  Drop in to see what he's up to at the moment and you can take a look at previous blogs on topics as varied as villanelles to poems in the style of... Duffy, Armitage, Heaney etc.  The aim is to help you help your students by trying to make the writing process more transparent.

VERSE SURGERY
A place to share your poems and students’ poems. Our Poetry Doctor and Verse Nurse will help out with advice and comments. Send your pupils' poetry, please - to poet@teachit.co.uk 

STREET CORNER
FAQs and FEGs (frequently expressed gripes). How to react when students just 'don't get it'? How important are terms like 'enjambment'?  Is it really important to distinguish between similes and metaphors?  And so on...

POETRY PUB
General thoughts on poems and poetry.  Sophie Hannah compares poetry to crime fiction. Why is poetry special?  Books for younger readers. And more..

.What does it MEAN????  and  Personal Response - What's that all about?  'Miss, Miss, what does it MEAN?'   Here are some thoughts about Meaning.   Don't rush for Meaning. Slow down, breathe deeply. Take a look here, it might help.  

What kind of 'personal response' is useful?  Some thoughts on how to guide students.

TOUCHSTONES NOW:  TOUCHSTONES@Teachit is a steadily growing area, aiming to help you make the most of the new anthology.

Blogs

• Villanelle
• Before She Was Theirs
• Dream blogs
• Hitcher
• Follower
• Writing a Sonnet
• Under Humber Bridge
• My Parents Kept Me...
• Villanelle 2
• Writing for younger readers
• Snowdrops - homage to Blackberry-picking
• Jottings
• Punctuation Poems
• Cottingham: less is more
• Renee's Challenge: Baked Bean Can Sonnet
• From Notes to Poems
• Inspired by The Ropes
• More Notes to Poems - It's a Wrap
• Presents...
• After the break: Ireland
• France
• Autumn
• Townscapes
• Terza Rima
• Cargoes
• Sponsor a Sonnet
• Spring 09
• Doodling
• John Clare in a Paris Bar
• G & T lyrics
• End of term
• July Sonnet
• Speling test to poetry text
• Holiday Memories
• Socks and Sonnets
• Dragons
• Magic
• Abi's Card
• I Remember Retford
• Gremlins (after Lollocks)
• Oxford Sonnet
• Hurdler

Links

• Tower Poetry
• Poetry Shuffle Teachit KS3 Interactive Pack
• Poetryclass website
• Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
• National Poetry Day
• The Poetry Society
• English Teaching Online - the one with all the poetry
• Teachit Top 5 for National Poetry Day 2006
• Teachit Top 5 for National Poetry Day 2005
• GCSE Poetry anthology teaching ideas - staffroom thread
• Duffy and Armitage poetry - staffroom thread
• Teachit editors' favourite poetry resources