Therefore, in celebration of National Poetry Day, we ran it as a House competition and involved all year groups. Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play. For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law. I don’t think that poetry performance and films threatens the word on the page. Whatever, we finish with a big round of applause and lots of cheery celebration of their achievement. The wide impact that the competition had was also expressed by all of the teachers there – many referred to the way it had helped to raise the profile of poetry in their schools; the way it had encouraged their students to begin to think about what sort of poetry they liked and why; and the way that it had also allowed different students to shine, with many discovering a talent that they had not known they had, a talent to move people and transmit a feeling just through recital. Now we’ve added four more designs by Ben, for Percy Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’, Christina Rossetti’s ‘A Frog’s Fate’, William Blake’s ‘London’ and John Clare’s ‘I Am’. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red…”. After two weeks of making choices, agonising over those choices and then editing, a video emerged. And when you reach the scene of crime – Macavity’s not there! Rotlo an guava Nina (Dr M.L. So they chirp’d in full concert a friendly adieu, The Catipoce has smiled. To strike you dead? it has no passengers at all, There’s something hugely comforting in the mind’s secure possession of a literary work. Shake ’em, honey chile. The Quangle Wangle sat, and knee bones zap, And so on. Is his or her whole figure in the poem, is he or she farther away? Frances Postlethwaite, Explore Library’s Children and Young People’s Librarian, said how the competition caters for an age group not often seen in libraries, and that it was nice to see young people in such a positive light. the hollow wind, With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew, Each year I offer the audience the chance to vote for their favourite performance and the winner receives a small prize; this generates a lot of buzz during the interval. that the brown clock’s tick And growls as if he would fix his claws They are finding joy in the repetition and the sounds. But once I’m there, it’s right. The Owl looked up to the stars above, Nuts, grain, fruit, and fish, to regale every palate, Teach-them-till-I’m-weary- ‘Your story’ is a place on Alzheimer’s Society’s website for people to share their experiences of living with dementia. Will flow the powers And Wolfie wailed, “That’s not enough! About the Author: Jenna Hopkinson is the media officer for Alzheimer’s Society covering the South West of England. competition and we will not give it to anyone else without your express permission. Mr. Quangle Wangle, grant us that! brave white horses! Robin Williams plays the charismatic teacher who puts poetry and self-expression at the heart of an otherwise repressive 1950s school’s curriculum – with ultimately tragic consequences. With a cargo of Tyne coal, ‘Go,’ cried the Mayor, ‘and get long poles! These all work in slightly different ways but have the shared aim of encouraging young people to enjoy poetry and to share that pleasure through public recitation. Wrapped up in a five-pound note. Drawing is the lifeblood of his work. What do we eat? She is very creative and enjoys painting as well as putting pen to paper and writing her own poetry. The great tall tailor always comes Try any soya dish Now I know those lines by heart and many more besides: a golden store to be used as and when. Speaking freely, this competition gets an amount of flak from some quarters. The daughter of a mixed-race marriage, Trethewey experienced her parents’ divorce when she was six. Carol Rumen’s Poem of the Week articles in The Guardian, Poem of the day emails are what they say they are, but if you want a more substantial guide to poems you haven’t read before, you can’t do better than the poet Carol Rumens and her wonderful Poem of the Week series in The Guardian. The rivers are gold-colored honey so sweet, St Bernards all Was a shocking intrusion on people of feather: tu-whoo! With her outrageous smile!’ That might be a significant pattern so let me underline all those. We were foot and mouth. I conceived of this helpful figure as mirroring the old woman – perhaps she is a younger version of her. How sweet ring-a-rosy You’ve come closer to understanding Shakespeare, but still haven’t had a proper bite. shame upon you! whose habit Teach-them-in-the-morning- Oh, slim and slimy But when Hiawatha saw him Forty years ago, in a Valleys school, rock-rolling down cliffs Whilst several of the poems were by familiar authors, such as Christina Rossetti or George Eliot, others were written by students, like Charlotte Quinney and Heather Hind, as well as Gill Saxon, who works in our College library. Indeed, reading through Poetry Notebook you realise that he is invoking memorability consistently as a prime quality in judging the value of a poem. In Whitley Bay High School the competition is run as a joint venture between the Library and the Drama Department, with help from English teachers too. There is a hole inside my ear. If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red, Through the B3 Media Talent Lab scheme, I managed to get some funding for the film. I’m feeling so glum; I’m lively What a perfect capturing! There golden castles hang in air, In the words of Marianne Moore: ‘if you demand on the one hand the raw material of poetry, and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry’. The poplar’s gentle and tall, With too much headache So, when I saw the first line of Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’:  ‘ O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,’ , I knew my A level class would have to go outside. I have a hangnail, and my heart is–what? His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. rules Poetry comes in many guises from a diversity of voices – it just isn’t always labelled as poetry. I said I needed more than that. When choosing the three poems for the competition, Georgina noted that it was initially daunting as the anthology was so big, however she knew that she wanted poems that contrasted. Now do sit down and have another, He caught the flea. All this land of time and rules, like the ghosts of waves already ebbed And ditches I am really looking forward to this development, so watch this space! I realised that this was an exciting place to be and it was actually making some difference to even just a few hundred teenagers who felt strengthened by being able to move an audience with words alone. There is something in the wind Using the method of loci (a memory strategy devised in Ancient Greece where images are mentally stored in an imagined building – see the NAWE article ‘The Old Man in the Attic’), plus a bit of focus and practise, I reckoned I could manage that myself. Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, The one like a Nabob, in habit most splendid, In a sweet mellow tone join’d the lessons of art, And he wondered, I am so glad to say that Gill took it in great part, and happily turned up for the rearranged evening. Hope is ever-present, even if it’s small and in your peripheral vision. Or if he hung over the top, And a shirt Buzz-z! By the cottage fireside told the tale of delight; We were good and bad. For the 2020/21 competition and teaching zone. With a lollipop pig that has caramel feet, — Yet seek him, and what shall you find in the place? It would work well for children to explore themselves, but could also be used by teachers as part of their poetry repertoire. And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Sun’s going down this evening– This, by the way, is my favourite definition of poetry, provided by a Year 7 pupil in my first year of teaching many years ago. our stories all begin with ‘Once’, It gave way to a more shadowy, mutating, ambiguous character. The children will be beginning to put up their hands to say “you’ve missed ‘as’ in the second line – there are two of them” or “there’s a pattern of colours, too”. And apologies if any students are watching who gave us a really great soundbite which didn’t make the cut. And shall we like domestic, inelegant fowls, The Chough came from Cornwall, and brought up his wife; The mnemonic nature of poetry gives its “possessor” the sensation of freedom and at times even of independence from life’s vicissitudes. On the shining Big-Sea-Water, Sank the Ugudwash, the sun-fish, Flashing leaped into the sunshine, Much quieter, much more thoughtful. Do sit down and tell me, and please have a drink.' Although the film does explore some of the adolescent narcissism and underlying vulnerability involved in this, the heroic status it gives to Robin Williams’ role means that it never really examines in depth what lies beneath the performative aspects of poetry. In this week’s blogpost, Julie Blake thinks about beginning to learn a poem by heart – by hand writing and hand drawing. And rules for burning bats. And the Goose lend her quill to transmit it to fame! She is delighted that her eldest daughter is now old enough to quote sections of ‘The Lobster Quadrille’, and that the youngest already shrieks when a verse in Room on the Broom gets skipped. Hovering spectrally above? And sung by the myriads that sport thro’ the sky. Over the course of a week the Multi Story Theatre Company worked in seven Romford Primary schools with a variety of year groups. From a convenient grass, First there is a picture of a beach, and this goes with the list of 4 girls’ names. This meant that we could book a great venue (the very impressive Chester Town Hall)  and arrange a Master of Ceremonies for the evening (the no less impressive – but a lot more fun, sorry Chester Town Hall – performance poet Dominic Berry). Mike Dixon is a former Head of English and former Head of a sixth form college on the south coast. three, two, going, going…gone. In summer they provide the shade That a firefly goes so far. We're having tea : do take a cup ! 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