The trouble with poetry – how we get teaching it wrong
‘Would anyone care to join me / in flicking a few pebbles in the direction / of teachers who are …
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Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints
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Braiding a windowpane – Don Paterson’s Rain
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This scepter’d isle: Andrew Motion’s The Cinder Path
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A Watery Grave: Helen Dunmore’s The Malarkey
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Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet
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Alice Oswald’s Memorial
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Through a glass, darkly – Gail Ashton’s The Other Side of Glass
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Poor Rude Lines 