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National Poetry Day 2008
- Work
We've come up with
some great ideas for using this year's National Poetry Day poems
in the classroom.
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Wer D'ye Come Fae?
This series of creative writing workshops involved refugees /
asylum seekers, as well as native Scots. Participants shared stories
about life in Scotland and wrote about their experiences, with
thought provoking, poignant and amusing results. Selected poems
were published as postcards, and on Glasgow buses.
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Dream Poems
Four UK poets wrote dream poems for National
Poetry Day 2007, and the Scottish Poetry Library published eight
further poems by Scottish poets as postcards and e-cards. Read
them all here.
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Poems United:
A Commonwealth Anthology
The Scottish Poetry Library's newest anthology, Poems United,
takes you on a worldwide journey tracing rivers, people, animals,
places.
- Lesson plans
using poetry to explore different parts of the world, with
different themes.
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The Thing That Mattered Most:
Scottish Poems For Children
The Scottish Poetry Library's popular Scottish poetry anthology for young people.
- A CLPE Poetry Award winner, The Thing That Mattered Most was
distributed by Learning & Teaching Scotland to every
school in Scotland.
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About | Face
Poets playfully answer questions about their faces and recommend
some poem-portraits for you to read. Portraits by Maud Sulter.
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Poetry and Architecture: Schools
Poetry Competitions
A three-year education programme for schools run during 2004-2006,
in liaison with Historic Scotland. Read winning poems written as part of a three-year programme
for schools.
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Meet the poets
What makes poems happen? Where do poets get their ideas? What's
it like being a poet? Read our interviews with six
popular Scottish poets. Written for young people.
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Poet/Makar/Bard
Hundreds of children and young people
have worked with Scottish poets as part of the SPL's programme,
and Poet/Makar/Bard was published to share a selection of poems
by the young people who took part in some of the SPL's workshops.
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