Delighted to have a chapter on ‘Integrating poetry-focused digital technology within a literacy teacher education course’ in this fine new publication.
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Taking new poems for a swim
New poems never really come alive until they have been taken out for a swim and I’ve heard someone laugh at them or groan or even applaud.
Finding & Keeping Poetry: The Harold Rosen Lecture, NATE Annual Conference 2016
‘Finding and Keeping Poetry’ is the title for the Harold Rosen Lecture I will be giving in June. The keynote is … More
“Don’t Waste” – Lammas School – YouTube
As Spoken Word Educator Cat Brogan prepares to leave Lammas School this month for exciting new poetry projects in Malaysia, … More
Appeal to the Grammarians by Paul Violi : The Poetry Foundation
Paul Violi’s ‘Appeal to the Grammarians’: a fantastic poem arguing for new punctuation mark
I Know This City
I know that Yates’s Wine Lodge
(where the Australian wine liquor is like no other)
is still Yates’s
even though the Friends’ Trio no longer plays here.
Writing as a Poet, Writing as an Academic
Delighted to appear in such distinguished company in Creativity in Language Teaching (Routledge)
My 2015 poetry highlights
Some of the best poetry reading and listening I experienced last year from Burrows, Campbell, Dharker, Hodgeon, Lammas School, Mouthy Poets, Sissay and many more.
Staying alive
Imtiaz Dharker’s fine Bloodaxe collection Over the Moon has been my constant companion for the last few weeks on long … More
‘Spoken Word education is uniquely placed to give form to feelings and meaning to often unheard voices’ (Cat Brogan in … More