Tag Archives: Poetry

Say, Did You Say?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

Say, did you say, or did you not say, What I said you said? For it is said that you said That you did not say What I said you said. Now if you say that you did not say … Continue reading →

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Rhythmic Raps

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Here’s a great idea for getting students to write rhythmic raps. We’ve used this technique time and again in our Poetry Jams and we first ‘lifted’ the idea from Alan Maley and Alan Duff after seeing it in their excellent … Continue reading →

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Good with Children and Dogs – Jan Dean an itinerant poet.

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

  Jan Dean is by her own admission an ‘itinerant poet, good with children and dogs’. She says that, ‘Being a poet isn’t a job. It’s who you are. It’s to do with a way of seeing the world – … Continue reading →

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Today and Tomorrow

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden

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Alabama

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

My brethren, among the legends of my people it is told how a chief, leading the remnant of his people, crossed a great river, and striking his tipi-stake upon the ground, exclaimed, ‘A-la-ba-ma!’ This in our language means ‘Here we … Continue reading →

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The Listeners – Walter De La Mare

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

The dark wood, wind whistling through the trees, the lone traveller and the seemingly deserted house. These are the typical ingredients for a classic, ghostly tale, and so it is with Walter De La Mare’s ‘The Listeners’. It’s a poem … Continue reading →

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Vampires – Down at the Hotel Dread

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Here at Henry Towers we’re getting more than a little excited about the imminent arrival of hallowe’en. Any excuse to dress-up, and we’ve been planning our costumes for months. As we do every year, we’ll be hollowing out pumpkins, concocting blood cocktails, baking … Continue reading →

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Diane Ackerman’s “100 Names for Love” – language lessons rebuild a man’s life

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

The work of naturalist and poet Diane Ackerman has more than once touched on areas of interest to language teachers. In An Alchemy of Mind she uses her own personal memories, from working in her rose garden to bird-watching in … Continue reading →

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How to write a school play – an example from the late 1500s

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

In the Times Literary Supplement of July 1st Shakespeare Institute lecturer Martin Wiggins reports that the Elizabethan Club of Yale University has recently acquired the manuscript of Oedipus – a play for schoolchildren written in the late 16th century (the … Continue reading →

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‘Lone Dog’ a poem by Irene Rutherford Mcleod (1891-)

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

Irene Rutherford McCleod, an Australian born poet who wrote ‘Songs to Save the Soul’ (1915) and ‘Before Dawn’ (1918); her poem ‘Lone Dog’ has been republished in many anthologies. She was the sister-in-law of A.A. Milne and indeed one of … Continue reading →

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