Grow Your Own Poems

Author : KATE. CLANCHY
Publisher : Picador
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529024692

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How to Grow Your Own Poem by KATE. CLANCHY Pdf

Kate Clanchy has been teaching people to write poetry for more than twenty years. Some were old, some were young; some were fluent English speakers, some were not. None of them were confident to start with, but a surprising number went to win prizes and every one finished up with a poem they were proud of, a poem that only they could have written - their own poem. Kate's big secret is a simple one: is to share other poems. She believes poetry is like singing or dancing and the best way to learn is to follow someone else. In this book, Kate shares the poems she has found provoke the richest responses, the exercises that help to shape those responses into new poems, and the advice that most often helps new writers build their own writing practice. If you have never written a poem before, this book will get you started. If you have written poems before, this book will help you to write more fluently and confidently, more as yourself. This book not like other creative writing books. It doesn't ask you to set out on your own, but to join in. Your invitation is inside.

Author : Peter Dixon
Publisher : VCTA
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : 0333445996

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Grow Your Own Poems by Peter Dixon Pdf

Author : Kate Clanchy
Publisher : Swift Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800751811

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How to Grow Your Own Poem by Kate Clanchy Pdf

Do you want to write a poem? This book will show you 'how to grow your own poem'... Kate Clanchy has been teaching people to write poetry for more than twenty years. Some were old, some were young; some were fluent English speakers, some were not. None of them were confident to start with, but a surprising number went to win prizes and every one finished up with a poem they were proud of, a poem that only they could have written – their own poem. Kate's big secret is a simple one: to share other poems. She believes poetry is like singing or dancing and the best way to learn is to follow someone else. In this book, Kate shares the poems she has found provoke the richest responses, the exercises that help to shape those responses into new poems, and the advice that most often helps new writers build their own writing practice. If you have never written a poem before, this book will get you started. If you have written poems before, this book will help you to write more fluently and confidently, more as yourself. This book not like other creative writing books. It doesn't ask you to set out on your own, but to join in. Your invitation is inside.

Author : Kate Clanchy
Publisher : Swift Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800751668

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Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy Pdf

With a new afterword. 'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip Pullman Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught in her thirty-year career. Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of thirteen-year-olds. As she works in the school 'Inclusion Unit', trying to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons because of their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as she nurtures her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and refugees, watches them find their voice and produce work of heartbreaking brilliance. While Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and practically useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished and drastically under-resourced. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me will show you why it shouldn't be. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020

Author : Dan Chiasson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593317747

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The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson Pdf

A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet. The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say," a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from a stranger. Who made up whom? Chiasson, an acclaimed poetry critic, has invented a remarkable structure where the reader and a poet speak to one another, across the void of silence and mystery. He is also the father of teenaged sons, and this volume continues the autobiographical arc of his prior, celebrated volumes. One long section is about the age of thirteen and the dawning of desire, while the title poem looks at the crucial age of fifteen and the existential threat of climate change and gun violence, which alters the calculus of adolescence. Though the outlook is bleak, these poems register the glories of our moment: that there are places where boys can kiss each other and not be afraid; that small communities are rousing and taking care of each other; that teenagers have mobilized for a better world. All of these works emerge from the secretive imagination of a father as he measures his own adolescence against that of his sons and explores the complex bedrock of marriage. Chiasson sees a perilous world both navigated and enriched by the passionate young and by the parents--and poets--who care for them.

Author : Ellenor Shepherd
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781449777494

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Grow Your Own Penicillin by Ellenor Shepherd Pdf

The author wants to share what she has learned through the many diverse experiences in her life. Some were joyful, some sad. There were times of hurt, times of surprise, times of questioning, and times that dealt with life-threatening issues that have strengthened and shaped her faith. Her stories reveal to you that in order to have a healthy spirit, we must listen to the doctor, God, and to grow good penicillin, we must allow what we do to be Christ-centered. Whenever you need a devotion, wisdom for mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual issues, youll find the appropriate and meaningful story with an Rx for a special prescription within these pages. Rx: Thoughts, Devotions, Meditations, or Just Thinking Rx: Lifes Little Lessons Rx: Laughter, the Catalyst that Jump-Starts the Healing System Rx: Gods Amazing Creation Rx: Learning to Live and Leave the Hurt Behind Rx: Finding Our Own True Self Rx: Relationships Rx: Stories Which Touch My Soul In addition, selected Scripture, significant sayings, and challenges for you to find your own lesson, help impact and enhance these simplistic messages. These stories beg to be read again and again, in increments or as a whole, whether to seek an answer, to find comfort, to have a good laugh, to connect with Gods creation, or simply to enjoy.

Author : Chris Baron
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250305992

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All of Me by Chris Baron Pdf

"Beautifully written, brilliant, and necessary," (Matt de la Pena, Newbery Medalist), here is a body-positive book about how a boy deals with fat-shaming. Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting his mother's paintings and sculptures. Ari's bohemian mother needs space to create, and his father is gone for long stretches of time on "sales" trips. Meanwhile, Ari makes new friends: Pick, the gamer; the artsy Jorge, and the troubled Lisa. He is also relentlessly bullied because he's overweight, but he can't tell his parents—they're simply not around enough to listen. After an upsetting incident, Ari's mom suggests he go on a diet, and she gives him a book to help. But the book—and the diet—can’t fix everything. As Ari faces the demise of his parents' marriage, he also feels himself changing, both emotionally and physically. Here is a much-needed story about accepting the imperfect in oneself and in life.

Author : Maggie Smith
Publisher : Tupelo Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781946482426

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Good Bones by Maggie Smith Pdf

Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu

Author : The Poetry Center,John Timpane
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118053648

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Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center,John Timpane Pdf

Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” But no matter how you define it, poetry has exercised a hold upon the hearts and minds of people for more than five millennia. That’s because for the attentive reader, poetry has the power to send chills shooting down the spine and lightning bolts flashing in the brain — to throw open the doors of perception and hone our sensibilities to a scalpel’s edge. Poetry For Dummies is a great guide to reading and writing poems, not only for beginners, but for anyone interested in verse. From Homer to Basho, Chaucer to Rumi, Shelley to Ginsberg, it introduces you to poetry’s greatest practitioners. It arms you with the tools you need to understand and appreciate poetry in all its forms, and to explore your own talent as a poet. Discover how to: Understand poetic language and forms Interpret poems Get a handle on poetry through the ages Find poetry readings near you Write your own poems Shop your work around to publishers Don’t know the difference between an iamb and a trochee? Worry not, this friendly guide demystifies the jargon, and it covers a lot more ground besides, including: Understanding subject, tone, narrative; and poetic language Mastering the three steps to interpretation Facing the challenges of older poetry Exploring 5,000 years of verse, from Mesopotamia to the global village Writing open-form poetry Working with traditional forms of verse Writing exercises for aspiring poets Getting published From Sappho to Clark Coolidge, and just about everyone in between, Poetry For Dummies puts you in touch with the greats of modern and ancient poetry. Need guidance on composing a ghazal, a tanka, a sestina, or a psalm? This is the book for you.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1957-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385076968

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Favorite Poems Old and New by Anonim Pdf

"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book

Author : Chen Chen
Publisher : A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Am
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1942683332

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When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen Pdf

This award-winning debut interrogates the fragile, inherited ways of approaching love and family from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives.

Author : David Rubadiri
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0435920073

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Growing Up with Poetry by David Rubadiri Pdf

An anthology designed for the enjoyment and instruction of students from junior-secondary school onwards. The poems focus on aspects central to African life and culture: lover, identity, death, village life, separation, power and freedom. Guidance for teachers is included.

Author : Salil Jha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692265295

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Naked Soul by Salil Jha Pdf

"Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems" is an extraordinary storytelling in the form of erotic love poetry, speaking directly to the reader's heart through sensations that course throughout the body. This powerful collection of erotic and sensual love poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms -- from intense passionate sexual desire to seductive victory. There are love poems for every mood and sentimental feeling, for every phase of love you are experiencing whether you are with a partner or not. Read it slowly. Read a poem at a time, or two-or all at once-but give it time to sink into your heart. Read them again. Visualize. Let the poem show you what may be lying dormant in your own heart. Any poetry lover who loves deep symbolism, storytelling and musing over deep verses will find this book very touching. No matter which phase of love you are growing in currently, this book will serve to sail you further towards the endless ocean of love.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : anboco
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736405448

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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing." The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.

Author : Rachel H
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0645327239

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The Garden That You're Growing by Rachel H Pdf

The Garden That You're Growing is a poetry book about the messy path to building a life you're proud of, and the people we love and lose on the way. This collection of poems weaves natural imagery and storytelling together to explore growing up, self-image, friendship, and faith. This book is for those who are on a journey of growth, or for those looking for a special gift for a friend. the garden that you're growing you're looking in the mirror and don't like what you see. you're nothing like the person that by now you thought you'd be. and the voices in your head start telling you those lies, now there's a tremor in your lip and tears inside your eyes. they tell you about the others who are so much better than you, and you've heard it enough times that you start to believe it's true. that everything you've worked to be and everything you've made when put against another life just all begin to fade. but oh, you need to wipe your eyes to see things as they are. a life of your own making should never be put on par. and their grass just may be greener but that is not worth knowing. for the greenest grass cannot compare to the garden that you're growing.