Welcome to Trevor's poetry place
The aim of the Poetry Place is to help with the teaching, understanding and enjoyment of poetry. Enjoyment being something rather lost in the current climate... (see Poetry and Mr Gradgrind.)
Recently returned from a conference of English teachers and like-minded folk in the Kent and Medway area focusing on creativity. Here are some of the things which were composed in a few minutes that we stole for our own creativity. Earthworks.
To try to achieve those aims, we've set up the following areas, which are growing all the time:
WORKSHOP
Resources, ideas, tools to help you. Recently added, EVEN MORE ideas for poetry writing at KS3. Plus....
- The Miller's Tale and The Ancient Mariner
- Clare's Sonnet 'I Love to see the Summer...' and Christina Rossetti's 'Cousin Kate'
- Tennyson: from 'In Memoriam' and 'Come into the Garden, Maud'.
- Shelley: 'Mutability' and 'An Exhortation'.
- A little Blake; John Donne's 'Broken Heart'; Edna St.Vincent Millay; 'The World's Wife'
- AQA Anthology: 'Ulysses', 'Cold Knap Lake', 'Love after Love', 'Blackberry-Picking'
- AQA Anthology: TWO WILLIAMS - Wordsworth and Yeats: not their best work!
- Sonnets
- War Poems
- SIMON & SEAMUS - A tricky poem from Simon A and Seamus H's poem about his father.
- Plus a guide to some of Teachit’s best existing resources for poetry.
OPEN STUDIO
Writer at work. Drop in to see what he's up to at the moment - though he may be taking a bit of a break to recharge those creative batteries. But 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.
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. Why is poetry special? Books for younger readers. And more...
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
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Trevor Millum's Poetry Collections
Exploding Heads - Comic Strip Poems
Warning - Too Much Schooling Can Damage Your Health
(both available from NATE)
A Stegosaurus is for Life and other animal poems
(available from HandsUp Books or Amazon) www.trevormillum.co.uk |
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