Poetry

Blog 15 I visited Sutton Hoo not long ago. The site has been updated and the visitor numbers have increased since the release of “The Dig”, the excellent film about the discovery of the buried Saxon longship. The on-site museum is very

Blog 14I am old. Eighty, an age which you never imagine you will reach, has passed and I’m now eighty-two. When I was sixty-five, I thought that getting older was a bad idea, so I began to count backwards. Now,

Blog 12 Children with disabilities face prejudice all the time. If they are at a mainstream school, their peers may never have encountered anyone like them before. The behaviour of children in groups can mean that, following their natural leader, the

Blog 11The subject of a poem can be as varied as that of a piece of prose. It might be purely emotional, descriptive, atmospheric or fanciful. I think a poem that tells a story is especially valuable for children. The

What is a poem? Today, this has become harder to define, especially with the increasing popularity of ‘Prose Poetry’. Prose poems have a long history and include many eminent poets amongst its proponents, though some, such T.S. Eliot, argued strongly

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