Discusses children's poetry, the techniques and forms of poetry, and related topics, and provides advice for teachers on such aspects of using poetry in the classroom as reading aloud, dramatization, and student poetry writing.
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. PLEASE explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often...
Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories.
It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about: from new readers to old, from schools to reading groups, this a book for giving, a book for cherishing.
Young readers find their poetic peers as poets in their 20s and 30s present a poetry anthology dedicated to what it means to be a teenager and young adult in today's world. 240pp.
Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' and Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', here are Jenny Joseph threatening to be a ...
Through her fresh, lively word pictures, Dakos manages to find surprises in every corner of the school.
It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a lover. It willmake your reflection awobbling photo ofgrief. I amtrying to betruthful. Not a cute card or akissogram. I give you an onion.
100 New Poets for the Next Generation Brett F Lauer, Lynn Melnick. FIRST POEMS YOU READ OR LOVED: Octavio Paz's “Vuelta,” Borges's poems, Xavier Villaurrutia, Nicanor Parra's Antipoems. YoUR FAvorite ARTIST OR MUSICIAN. Bruce Pearson ...
Various Poets. ** To Loo To BBC As heard on RADIO Radio 4's Poetry Please The Seasons The Nation's Most POETRY PLEASE The Seasons. Front Cover.
A series of letters on the death of the speaker's father that investigate loss and language's limits and ability to transcend our temporal lives