English: Poetry & Technology
The Task: Compile a Poetry Anthology of 10-12 poems for a year 11 class. at least 4 must be pre-20th century, and NONE can be from any of the poets in the HSC 2009-2012 prescriptions. a maximum of 1 set of lyrics or prose poem is allowed. cannot be the work of only one poet. [...]
War poetry
I have a couple of assignments in the works at the moment. Whilst working on my WW1 History assignment, I came across something that almost made me change my topic for my English Poetry assignment. The BBC UK website has two great animations to help students visualise war poetry – In Flanders Fields by John [...]
Some useful/interesting resources
I’m paddling to keep my head above water at the moment, but wanted to quickly log two things I came across tonight. First is the Australian Poetry Library. It has thousands of poems which are free to view, but have a small copyright fee if you want to print them out. It’s a win/win situation [...]