We’re having our very own open mic night! (Well, week) This is your chance to share your own poetry. It can be in any form you like: serious or funny, free verse or villanelle. You could even try your hand at writing deliberately bad poetry (trickier than it sounds!). Your poem should be at least 8 ...

This week we’re reading “Messy Room” by Shel Silverstein. Shel Silverstein was a celebrated American children’s writer. He was actually multi-talented: he started out as a popular cartoonist before becoming a writer and even turned his hand to song-writing. His poems for children are funny and heart...

Reciting poetry without having the poem in front of you is a tricky test of your memory (not to mention your public speaking skills!). Don’t worry, we’re not expecting you to get up on stage and start reeling off Shakespearian sonnets this week. Instead, we’d like you to do a quick poetic memory tes...

This week we’re discussing “Autumn Song” by Sarojini Naidu. Sarojini Naidu was nicknamed “the nightingale of India” due to her romantic, emotion driven poetry. She was an important figure in the Indian independence movement and later became the first woman to serve as president of her political part...

Class applications are now open! They will remain open until 20 January 2024 . Before you apply, please read through this post very carefully. When considering whether or not you will apply to be a Professor or Student Teacher, you need to keep a few things in mind. You must be at least 17 years old...

This week we’re discussing “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. Elizabeth Bishop was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. She is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century, in spite of only publishing 101 poems in her lifetime. Most of her poetry is written in a very observat...

So far we’ve talked a lot about the poems but not really about the people writing them. Pick a poet to profile. They could be one you’re familiar with or one you’ve never heard of before. You can do this in a couple of ways: 1. Tell us about them (who they are/were and the kind of poetry they’re kno...

Janne Halla wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:27 pm Foor Week 3, poetry in books, are comic books/collections allowed to be talked about?

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With thanks to Prof. Tarma Amelia Black for writing the post and making the puzzle Sometimes a poem is meant to comfort. Other times that poem will be a stark reminder of the actualities, and wonders, of life. This cryptogram contains part of a poem which has some wonderful imagery. https://i.posti...

Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed But not yet weary are our feet Still round the corner we may meet… That’s just a fragment from just one of the songs and poems that feature in J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Songs/poems are very important to many of the ch...

This wee, we’ll be discussing “Over the Wintry” by Natsume Soseki Natsume Soseki was a hugely influential Japanese writer. Though he’s most famous for his novels and short stories, he also wrote a lot of poetry, mostly using traditional Japanese forms. His portrait used to feature on Japanese bankno...

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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils This is the opening of an incredibly famous poem by William Wordsworth. While it’s perhaps Wordsworth’s most well-known poem, it owes a lot to two other people in his l...

Poetry anthologies are collections of poems, usually written by several different people. They’re often themed, so you might have an anthology all about love or one comprised of poems from people who have something in common, such as the country where they live. Let’s build an anthology of our own f...

Our second discussion is about Julia Donaldson’s “I Opened a Book” Donaldson is a renowned writer of children’s books and poems, with her most famous being The Gruffalo. She began as a song writer (writing songs for children) and was inspired to become an author when someone asked if they could turn...

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