Teachers, parents, contestants, judges and librarians all told us about the value they placed on the competition. The old King of Dorchester, I’d teach you to croak, If you were a conker For night cap– In innocent slumber like this. Introduction Transcription. Now, before you pass, Condescended to sing to the fowls of condition: had a peg for a knee Rose the Ugudwash, the sun-fish, Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, Puri, paratha When they gaily had carroll’d till peep of the dawn, In the process of memorizing the lines you’ll come to understand how they roll together, to know the rhythm and the underlying metre. Whose Ball shall be talk’d of by birds yet unhatch’d; To the north In this poem he spoke of the different seasons in the South, “their songs of the May-time”, a reference to “Home”, that mythical ancestral Camelot set in England ten thousand miles and six months away. But someone or other forgot to declare 19th November 2015. words are sprouting Students were able to comprehend, talk and write about their interpretation of the poem’s content based on their understanding not simply of ‘what’ was being said, but also of ‘how’ meaning was articulated in the poem. Not in an arm-waving, props-supported thespian extravaganza, but as the outward and audible manifestation of an inwardly-understood and enjoyed poem. So in the interests of research, I went along to one of Peter Clifford’s magic shows. So, all this thinking about wider reading and comparing texts led me to consider what poems I might put alongside some of my favourites in the Poetry By Heart anthology to encourage the development of those generic ‘comparing’ skills that are valued so highly. Sometimes, when looking at my grandchildren, I think as he did: For our youth is spent, and our backs are bent. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. She Will Soar: Bright, Brave Poems of Freedom by Women, Inspiring Poetry in your School through the CLiPPA Shadowing Scheme, https://clpe.org.uk/aboutus/news/clpe-announce-new-partnership-years-clippa, Quarto to Showcase – creating a digital collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets, William Shakespeare’s 154 published sonnets. Early in the evening, Peter performed a memory feat in which he listed the titles of Shakespeare’s plays and narrative poems in chronological order, starting with Henry VI (Parts 2, 3 and 1) and ending with Two Noble Kinsmen. But, there are other traditions of memorisation and recitation too, which are driven by their own histories, dynamics and expectations. There is a key classroom scene halfway through the film, when Deanie is emotionally distraught having been rejected by Bud. Clearly rhyme and metre help poems stick in the memory, but they also signal ‘traditional’. Round and round As a dramatic forum, opening up debate about the efficacy and value of competing pedagogies, it continues to have subtly probing resonance. Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence! Parents’-evening- And so he journeyed on and on, still seeking for delight. He caught the minnow. Once there was an elephant, Nothing but silence and empty space; But it wasn’t until we began to read war poetry that the terrors endured by the men – boys, really, most of them – came alive for me. One of the joys of the week was seeing how the children responded to a challenging collection of poems. My name gets called in a whisper, When I was fifteen, I had words on my wall. At this, the dread ghost made a withering cry. So, librarians, if someone tells you it’s your chance to run a competition by these people, grasp the opportunity in both hands. A list of poems by Langston Hughes. Below are 6 suggestions with the (A) poem taken from the Poetry By Heart anthology and the (B) poem chosen from outside our anthology. And when white moths were on the wing, What’s that you say? I share poems I especially enjoy with family and friends on my Facebook page. I realised they had got the poem right off the page and into themselves and the more I could help them do that, the better. With the Swan, who brought out the young Cygnet, her daughter: Others are looking for new poetry that reminds them of the things that. and that’s where she stopped at last, slightly imbedded. You are not the King of Fishes!”. That lived in the beautiful sea– Poem of the Week is free and available to anyone who wants it. the hollow wind, House points were awarded to the successful contestants. ‘Deed-a-reedle,’ said the fiddle, The stream is flowing, To charm our souls, as thou enchant’st our ears. 5)      (A) ‘You are old father William’ Lewis Carroll (B) ‘The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them.’ Robert Southey. Sing heigh ho! ‘Tootle-too,’ said the flute, Give your bones a shake-up Brooke’s soldier’s death produces a ‘…corner of a foreign field/That is forever England’ whereas Drummer Hodge’s body lifeless after a Boer War battle is absorbed in to the South African landscape. The videos showcase the competitors, and also what the competition is about. ‘The real key is ‘workman-like graft! There is something in the rain And charging along like troops in a battle, His hobby it grew, as some hobbies will, Sunbursts dip into the wispy clouds, I’m going blind in my right eye. Perhaps the richest film to probe the many forms in which poetry may get inside us and make connections with many of the deepest, most difficult, and even troubling aspects of our lives is The History Boys. The old King of Dorchester, And Don Peroquito, escap’d from Domingo. unspoken, their creams and yellows still. So what seemed to characterise this informal canon? And try to do nothing amiss. Even so, it is certain that many British Muslim students who go to state or private school during the day will then also go on to mosque classes each weekday evening (and sometimes before school too) in order to complete hifz – the memorisation of the whole Qur’ān, a task that might take three or four years. Treat it delicately, with respect. Take Tennyson’s ‘The Eagle’. That both his thumbs are off at last. Alexander Gliott (Josephine Baker Finds Herself) – First Prize – LISG American Section, Morgan Distler (God, A Poem) – Second Prize – Collège Sévigné, Matteo Joyce (Porphyria’s Lover) Lycée Camille Sée and Emma Georges (The Cleaner) Institut Notre Dame – joint Third Prize, Honorable Mentions to Emma Cowen (Dusting the Phone) LISG British Section and Joseph Hanlon (The Journey of the Magi) SIS Sèvres. The list could go on, of course, and we’ll be pursuing aspects of these questions in more depth in subsequent blogs. sandwiches, Remember that piranhas Bought an old castle complete with a ghost, They wanted me to tell them what it meant and what it was about. For the fiddles and the flutes were the finest in the land, Upon those mountain ledges, I wanted to get involved in the project because, as a drama-lover, I really liked the  sound of the poetry recital competition. That sounds stupid, but I was not fond of poetry and I did not like public speaking – at least not when I wasn’t playing a character. Father river Then he found Long sat waiting for an answer, A little fairy fellow, “Empire”….“the Lion”…. three, two, going, going…gone. Tom will be moving to London and working for the British Council. They danced by the light of the moon, Under the toadstool, sound asleep, shine red and gold and white from the sea. “It’s all you will get from me. We launched it quietly. Pigeons with their scarlet beaks, My name is inside And the little Blue Devil again. right in the path of the way she was headed, poetry by heart blog Choose a poem • Learn it by heart • Perform it out loud Poetry By Heart is a national competition in which young people in key stages 2, 3, 4 and 5 choose poems they love, learn them by heart and perform them in a school or college competition. We’ve used it in flyers promoting the competition at various times this year and the young artist who created it, Ben Westley Clarke, has blogged about his creative process for us. If you are aged between 7 and 25 years old you can submit up to four lines of poetry (in English or Welsh) inspired by the theme ‘our community’ to Dylan’s Great Poem – an international appeal to create a new 100 line–bilingual poem inspired by Thomas’ words. I’ve been spending time in the company of William Shakespeare’s 154 published sonnets, which are at the heart of Renaissance literary tradition, yet I have to admit that I knew little about them until recently. How memorisation affected participants’ understanding and experience of the poem. On the top of the bare hill; If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more ! Yes, judges. She’s currently taking a creative writing class, has been the Chair of Governors at a local school for 6 years, and became a parish councillor earlier this year. The complete, unabridged text of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, with vocabulary words and definitions. O please let us come and build a nest Poetry Comics shows us how modern artists and poets have explored this idea, combining poetry and sequential art to create new and surprising works. His poem ‘Love’ begins: ‘Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, The line ‘Guilty of dust and sin’ describes exactly how I feel when I’m depressed: worthless, hopeless – guilty. Your ring?" We also publicise the competition more widely and encourage any student, if she so desires, to participate, regardless of whether they are studying English Literature or not. . Till he wearied of the shouting; And ghosts Do sit down and tell me, and please have a drink.' We were the doppelganger. From all points of the compass flock’d birds of all feather, One way to help children enjoy that unique tingle is to show them how they can turn the secret keys of the poem, and see how it works. Then, going from group to group, I picked up their sheets and read what they’d got to the rest of the class. I have to find out who calls, Sailing in the light. She stared. On their merrythought bosoms, away they all flew. Here at the CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) we believe poetry is a fundamental element in the development of children’s literacy. And would have done so, had not She Instead, because it resonates with personal elements in the two characters’ emotional struggles, the poem becomes more vivid in its own right, its details registered with full attentiveness. Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, He also uses a mnemonic system in which he changes numbers into images and links these to things he wants to remember. Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. Nor spell nor charm, On a bicycle saddle astride. This done, with a dignified mien The ‘Waggoner’ isn’t described in detail – I found his anonymity slightly sinister – I thought of him as a hooded ‘death’ figure, like a character from an Edward Burra watercolour. And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb. The Pobble who has no toes The new poem will be revealed on 19th May, and performed live at the Hay Festival. Of wonderful sights that be, The first anthology of GULAG prisoners’ poetry was published in 2005. trees are simply doing good. Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Up he rose with angry gesture, He attended RGS in the ‘70s and is now Associate Professor of British Literature and Culture at Meiji Gakuin University in Japan. For he’s a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. It was the delicious simplicity of the idea that first struck us: memorise a poem by heart. Of the might Was as wooden Even the most inaccessible speech of Hamlet’s appears comprehensible as performers communicate their understanding of the character through the language on the page. Give it a go: poem posters We build up the fire, we’re snug and warm; With her devouring smile!’, Pets are the Hobby of my brother Bert. Right then they decided they might as well hide it–. In the final report we divided the central findings into three main categories or sets of issues: What kinds of poems were held in people’s memories and had become particularly important to them? But once I’m there, I know. imagination No animal will more repay Ana Sampson has edited five anthologies of poetry including I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Alonso) manages a school library in Spain and trains teachers in developing young people’s engagement with poetry. Continue. Oh! It is worth acknowledging that a poem may not always elicit fond memories, a particular subject may cause someone to recall unhappy times. Later in the lesson, we’ll all pronounce that line with emphasis on the plosive sounds and realise that it makes our lips do a “blowy out” movement, a bit like the cold winds in the poem. The competition is open to years 10 – 13, but perhaps engaging children in poetry, specifically this kind of performed-poetry, from a younger age would encourage more students to get involved when they reach year 10. The old King of Dorchester, more lustrous than rubies, So they took it away, and were married next day Both students comment on how it has really opened their eyes to the power and beauty of spoken poetry. ‘Oh Harry, Harry! And definitely not something I was about to try at home. The linnet and thrush say, ‘I love and I love!’ At the stern sat Hiawatha, I would say “pencil and paper” but I’ve seen some amazing chalk-art on pavements during the lockdown! And singing, and loving – all come back together. We did Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Othello in school last term.’. It was May 1942. Little brown baby of mine, go to rest. Come our lovely lady nigh; In my interviews with these students about the use of dub poetry to help them better connect with other forms of poetry, the students expressed above all else, how much listening to and ‘sounding out’ the poems helped them to better interpret the poem on the page. Image courtesy of Noel Hankamer – Arching Oaks, I love Glyn Maxwell’s idea of the first line of a poem being  ‘the precise moment at which the pressure of [a] silence breaks into utterance that has to be heard ( Julie Blake, March 2015). The results were amazing! It turned out that, not only could Peter recall individual words from any page and column, but, as he went on to demonstrate in a final flourish of memorizing brilliance, he could also recite complete lines from every page. For admitting the Bat, in his pinions of leather, ‘Where are you going, and what do you wish?’ Lies somewhere o’er their edges. 657 likes. I have found that the people who harp on about poetry being dead usually haven’t read any poetry from the last few decades. Tho’ captives unnumber’d sail’d close in her wake. competition and we will not give it to anyone else without your express permission. [7] Dorothea Mackellar 1885–1968 My Country. And like a thunderbolt he falls. What have you PBH 2014 Champion Matilda Neill of Whitley Bay High School receiving her trophy from Sir Andrew Motion. It is a grittier focus on the hardship of the journey. That done, sink down into a silvery strain, Listen well. tu-whoo! The cruel hungry foam, We’re introduced to language and reading through the rhyme we hear and join in with as children and our poetry journey begins there. Modelling is the next step. — Yet seek him, and what shall you find in the place? Someone came knocking “When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field…”. In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of, I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and. Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives – Something for your after school poetry club? In the run up to this moving event we are delighted to publish an article by Connie Ruzich first seen on her Blog http://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/  that features two of the poets in our anthology: Robert Graves and Charles Sorley. Each year I offer the audience the chance to vote for their favourite performance and the winner receives a small prize; this generates a lot of buzz during the interval. The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations; The juice tasted of gardens All the meanings of the poems are made by the poet and the readers”. I’m the dust bomb, I’m the freeze sneeze, I’m the top galactic jockey He entered the academic world only a few years ago at a relatively late stage in his life. Let him seek his own home wherever it be; Granny is Alison Shaw is an English Teacher and volunteer gardener. If they call you " pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin, Is his or her whole figure in the poem, is he or she farther away? after a week The posters have gradually become both more beautiful and more removed from the modest pedagogical ambition of those redactions. At whatever time the deed took place – MACAVITY WASN’T THERE! I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, It had become a glimmering girl when you’re doing the rhythm His plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats have been performed in London and Liverpool and his prose book In the Catacombs: a Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery, also published by Penned in the Margins, documents his search to find a great forgotten dead poet. I also drew from a handful of photographs of old faces. The fog came up with the tide, who wants me for what. I aim for variety but also a sense of flow even though I think anthologies are as often dipped into as read in sequence. The nuance and the subtlety follows after, depending on the performer, their interpretation and what the director wants to see. Will you suffer the Insects, the birth of a day, Whereas a "form" defines the way a poem arranges sounds, rhythms, or its appearance on the page, "genre" is something like the poem's style. The first thing I learnt was that, and this was quite a surprise to me being used to local council finances, the whole thing was fully funded. So, when I saw the first line of Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’:  ‘ O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,’ , I knew my A level class would have to go outside. One is tabby with emerald eyes, And go We live in an age where there isn’t just one sole method of learning and this can only be a brilliant thing for an Actor, or a Poetry By Heart reciter. Miss-I’ve-broke-my-ruler blues. My handbag’s a mess. These women clearly understood, without the need of discussion or questioning, Nuccio Ordino’s idea of the usefulness of the useless. He rivetted close What does he or she think of you? I’ve got the This is a magic fruit, a fragile drop Sugar, akras, kola-nuts, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair, The old moon laughed and sang a song, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red…, Trevor Eaton – Sonnet 18 -Original Pronunciation, the link between sound and meaning in the sonnets, Unplugged: exploring a poem through drawing, poem-poster for Mary Elizabeth Coleridge’s uncanny little poem, ‘The Witch’, Ben Westley Clarke, has blogged about his creative process, Clive James on the power of poetry to lodge in our memories, Click here to read Seamus Heaney’s article ‘Bags of Enlightenment’ in, Illustrating ‘The Witch': artist Ben Westley Clarke explains how he went about it, Emily’s Dream – lifting poetry off the page, maggie and milly and molly and may – building courage and confidence, NATE Conference in Nottingham 23rd-24th June 2017, Learning a sonnet? These connections, some heightenings of empathy, are surely the goal of any ambitious poetry reading. And dress by yellow candle-light. Comb ditto, I ask them what they remember. With ribbons and bibbons on every side for picnickers out in the glade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6_kyjggnwLU. They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream. To learn a sonnet, you’ll have to spend some time with it, pinning it up on the walls of your interior world so that when you speak it aloud you have the chance to taste the words without looking at them on paper. Does it have any meaning or value still in our troubled and postmodern age? And I’m told I hold the answer to the galaxy’s top question: That has to be done, He has had the same wife for almost 60 years. And, like eating cake, it’s not something anyone else can do for you. poetry by heart blog Choose a poem • Learn it by heart • Perform it out loud Poetry By Heart is a national competition in which young people in key stages 2, 3, 4 and 5 choose poems they love, learn them by heart and perform them in a school or college competition. The starter was a group challenge – see how much of the opening of “Night Mail” you can learn in five minutes. Dr. Aisha Spencer is a lecturer in Language and Literature Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Kingston, Jamaica. We spat, ‘Double or quits.’ What am I trying to communicate? Ah, but the queen of the sea, Orc – a supernatural figure of violent and terrifying wrathful revolutionary fervour speaks the words on the page above. And, with hearts beating light as the plumage that grew The reciter created a perfect balance between the beauty of the Downs and the violence of the guns at the Front. A veteran Decoy-Duck, whose falsehoods and wiles all round we. What does he or she think of you? Is his or her whole figure in the poem, is he or she farther away? And when the larder’s looted, or the jewel-case is rifled, and laughed to hear us groan. begins to swell? Had made his escape, and sail’d out on a cruise. “Get!” she said, “or you’re gone,” she said, and presented a paradox to be pondered by writers many of whom had little knowledge of that semi-mythical “Bush”. “And this is my project, old chap, Lower School students could choose any poem, while the older ones had to use the Poetry by Heart anthology. Separate one crystal. Then fill in the four or five frames before that. In the context of doing this in an extraordinary school year, shaped in strange ways by Covid-19, we wanted to say that thank you louder. Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance? For too long the worlds of performance poetry and published poetry often inhabited different spaces. Oh! Reading a poem for patterns is only one way to read it, and yes, there will be finer nuances that may not come to light with this reading technique. Mr. and Mrs. Canary; Here’s a cozie warm house for Edward and me. has kissed away but for now I sprint and skid and whisk and bolt and belt and bomb it; We only collect the information we need to run the and then, oh then it warms my insides. The same is true of the fierce vulnerability brought to contemporary performance poetry by Kate Tempest, or to internet poetry by Steve Roggenbuck. ‘When I learn pieces as an actor, and poems in fact, I’ll always go for what’s beneath the words. And ate the fellow, raw. Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years; For she said "The World in general knows Looking up at Hiawatha, In his coat Behind the house. Moans rise from ancient depths “‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; Here are three examples that offer things we can usefully chew on. I speak only for myself, not on behalf of the competition, not on behalf of my employer. the coating breaks with a crunch, and when I chew that mouthful, They will skip, jump and run, Using the method of loci (a memory strategy devised in Ancient Greece where images are mentally stored in an imagined building – see the NAWE article ‘The Old Man in the Attic’), plus a bit of focus and practise, I reckoned I could manage that myself. He wandered into foreign lands, he saw each wondrous sight, And chirrupt up his wings to dry upon the garden rail. Robin Williams plays the charismatic teacher who puts poetry and self-expression at the heart of an otherwise repressive 1950s school’s curriculum – with ultimately tragic consequences. Onion uttapam, With a ring at the end of his nose. Even so, just by mentioning it a couple of times on Twitter and in our regular newsletter, we’re already heading for triple figures a couple of weeks on and, with the lockdown beginning to ease a little, it’s time to introduce it properly. He had a little orchestra, There were poems about journeys over land and by sea that travelled happily together. Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Ravenous, cavernous, great sea-beasts! It’s been an unforgettable weekend and the support all the students have given each other has been wonderful.’. in store stories in the moonlight And backed up the chimney and came down again. I’ll look at the verse structure, the rhythm, assonance, alliteration – all those things that the poet will have used.’ He also says it’s important to ‘discover what your own personal, individual emotional connection to the poem is. His rollrock highroad roaring down, We’re five minutes in and already everyone has remembered a bit of wordplay and they have recited it from memory. Young Pushkin taking his first exam before the great poet Derzhavin (1815), The Bolsheviks at first proclaimed learning by heart a form of bourgeois oppression, but soon the “right” poems were selected, that is, those containing criticism of the tsarist absolute monarchy. To the present day, all Muslims will learn parts of the Qur’ān in Arabic; its recitation is both needed and vaunted in everyday Muslim life. And how may this differ from performing lines from a play, for instance? (Likewise, I might add, the only way I thought it possible on the page to equal the passion and empathetic engagement of a performed character was to make use of free spelling!). That burns all colours into one. But the plane tree’s kind to the poor dull city – From Hong Kong, the UK, Brazil, Mauritius, Spain, Uruguay, Palestine, Australia, Luxembourg, France, Colombia, Moldavia, Italy, Luxembourg, Malawi, Chile, USA and Greece, each of us chose poems that felt close to our hearts, meaningful or comforting in different ways during the crisis. My solution was to have a poetry starter involving some memorisation. Skipping by their fleecy dams. You know, they never grow again.”. There is every colour in the sun. The key aim is to widen the cultural experience for the area’s pupils who often come from deprived backgrounds. It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning. For example, the topic of what work women did during the war could be explored from the poems in the anthology, or some further details about grieving and memorialisation could readily be dovetailed into the existing piece. Thus, memorised poetry may be understood not as a single or discrete category, but as one form of engagement within an ecology of interdependent forms and exchanges. Films and TV drama generally are also a rich resource reflecting – and reflecting on – the many ways in which we still value poetry in contemporary culture. Kicking the pebbles along Eastbourne beach All five poem-posters are hand-drawn in pencil (later overlaid with ink) and they present the poem in the artist’s hand-written form. O Pussy, my love, Soon he was safe home, dry as could be. For some reason, the serious-humour aspect of the poem, as well as its urge to describe nature, also made me think of Japanese woodblock printing and artists such as Kuniyoshi and Kyosai. The unnecessary tumult, To feel her breath around you curl, These might ring a bell, but it feels really satisfying to actually see these in their full context, akin to finally remembering the title of a song when the tune has been at the back of your mind for a few days. The Great War encouraged thousands to put pen to paper, producing plays and novels as well as poetry. Smiling first a little smile, Tolkien, writing about another rover and warrior, wrote, “Not all those who wander are lost.”  Not long after enlisting, Sorley wrote in a letter home, “Indeed I think that after the war all brave men will renounce their country and confess they are strangers and pilgrims on the earth” (Powell, A Deep Cry). The ‘carrying over the threshold’ reminded me of so many themes in religious painting – especially the Pieta – the Virgin Mary carrying the dead Christ. ‘Tootle-too,’ said the flute, The Poetry Library has a collection of over 150,000 items in every form and medium imaginable: epics, ballads, sonnets, haiku. Rice an tofu, After several increasingly rapid-fire demonstrations of this memory stunt, the entire audience was at the jaw-dropped-open-in-amazement point. Flying, angry superheroes confronted deconstructed Biblical-looking patriarchs amid flames. Compared with her old Grandmamma Why should you run I wanted to draw the sequence of events from the poem – the big frog, surrounded by nature, carefree; followed by him meeting his sudden fate at the hands of the horse-drawn wagon which comes careering down a country lane. Every writer plays with language, form, imagery, and rhythm in different ways – the diversity of voices keeps poetry interesting and relevant. 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