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The new books and animated film will be with you within the next couple of weeks, hopefully. Go and read about this in the Teachers' Corner - see below.

MY THOUGHTS ON THE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION OF MY BOOKS

WELCOME PAGE

INTRODUCTION - Don't just read my poems. Come and meet me.

GUESTBOOK - Please say hello to me and other readers.

PHOTO GALLERY: I am lucky to live in a really lovely part of Britain. Do go and see photographs of Ilkley and area.

WRITE A POEM YOURSELF. Here is where you can get some help with writing a poem. If you've never tried writing a poem before, please give it a go. You may become addicted as I have. There's also a lot of help on other pages, including the children's corner.

IS THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM STIFLING CREATIVITY

as Andrew Motion said?

CREATING A POETICAL CLIMATE for your class or home

TEACHERS' CORNER - NEWS ABOUT THE NEW BOOKS AND FILM. - November letter.

TEACHING POETRY: Ideas to enliven your poetry classes

THE LITERACY HOUR

CHILDREN'S STORY POEMS

THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM: Whether you are a teacher or parent, you should have an idea what is required regarding the teaching of poetry. Here is some help and resources to use.

KEY STAGES 1 and 2 - POETRY : A very useful article for both parents and teachers who have children at either of these stages.

USING THE SENSES - Poems for your Key Stage 1 & 2 classrooms.

LIST OF WRITERS AND POETS - The National Curriculum

LITERACY: How metre and rhyming can help with literacy for both English speaking children and ESL students

LITERACY: RHYMING POETRY - LITERACY - PHONEMICS -

The big link in helping children and ESL students with reading and writing the English language.

PERFORMANCE POETRY: Poems should never be words that sit on the pages of a book. You need to hear them read aloud and you need to read them yourself and get children to read and perform them. Many of my poems are designed for just this.

MAY I RECOMMEND - that you might like to quietly listen to this: Forty Acres: a poem for Barack Obama from Nobel winner Derek Walcott.

PARODY - Teaching children the fun of parodying a poem

NEW POET LAUREATE - CAROL ANN DUFFY

CHILDREN'S POETRY CORNER - and not just for children. Here you can find changing poems and ideas to help you and your children write poetry. I may be giving you all my tools of the trade!!

Come and try your hand at rhyming. Here is a rhyming quiz

POETRY FOR THERAPY: It is well known that poetry writing and reading can be very therapeutic. Come and learn about this.