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Introduction
To Poemspotters Due for publication in early
2003 by Hopscotch Educational Publishing this exciting book will be in all
the shops and advertised in all schools. An exciting new project aimed
at understanding and writing poetry. There are two main parts to
Poemspotters: The Poetry Form Posters and the Creativity Manual. The whole
thing has a collectors, Gotta Catch Em All kind of a feel when used in
its entirety. Poemspotters is however
very adaptable and further information is available herewith. The posters cover around
thirty different poetry forms in a simple easy to grasp way and are designed
for display. Each poster has an eye-catching description of its form followed
by further depth; Helpful tips and interesting facts. These are to be placed
around the walls and viewed and discussed. You can then read a selection
of poems to your class and see who can spot form from the information around
them. There are example poems for each form, many of which have been
especially written. (Poets include Roger McGough
and SuAndi - more details upon confirmation) The Creativity Manual is part
of the same check list process. There are over 200 ideas to get you writing
within the manual. The challenge is, to see how many ideas and how many
poetry forms you can use, ticking them off as you go. There is also an activity
sheet with each poem poster. At the end of a term
(preferable) you can see how many you have covered, either the individual or
the whole class. Poemspotters could have a
far-reaching influence on the future of poetry! As well as being unique in
its contents and in its approach, Poemspotters has been designed for
presentation to teachers. In the trial presentation alone thirty teachers
received the package. Think of the number of children who will be taught
during those thirty careers! It is a fair bet that one of those children, in
later life, will develop a whole new poetry form (A teacher pointed out that
kids do that every week!), that another will be a famous writer and it is a
certainty that over 90% of them will go on to write poetry in their own time.
Poemspotters will be useful
for adults and children alike. If you want to experiment with a wide range of
poetry forms without having to scour through huge piles of weighty tomes then
this is the book for you. The poetry forms: Alphabet poems - Blank Verse Chants -
Choral poems Cinquain - Conversation poems Couplet Englyn Epitaphs
Elegies Epigrams - Free Verse Haiku Kenning Limerick Clerihews -
List poems Metaphor Simile - Near Rhyme - Nonsense Verse - Performance
Poetry Prayer Rap Riddles Sestina - Shape poems - Concrete poems
Calligrams Tanka - Thin poems Presentations for teachers or
pupils are available - via
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