Teachers' Poetry Resources

The Poetry Society publishes the following posters and books:Poetry Posters
 

Poetry for Early Years Posters
(KS1)

Full colour posters featuring favourite children's poems from Christina Rossetti, A.A.Milne, Michael Rosen and Judith Nicholls, complete with teaching notes.

CONTENTS
Wind on the Hill - by A. A. Milne
I Did a Bad Thing Once - by Allan Ahlberg
Cats - by Eleanor Farjeon
Squeezes - by Brian Patten
Gramma's Biscuit Tin - John Agard
Sampan - by Tao Lang Pee
Trainers - by Michael Rosen
Giant Tale - by Judith Nicholls
Colours - by Christina Rosetti

£11.50 (inc. P&P)
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Beginner's Riddles Posters
(KS1/2)

Introducing word-play from around the world, introducing pupils and teachers to the quirky world of verse, with teaching notes introduced by poet George Szirtes.

EXCERPT FROM GEORGE SZIRTES' INTRODUCTION
"We are constantly having to reinvent language to convey the startling, unique, once and once only strangeness of being alive. This reinvention - close to common speech yet not entirely of it - is the business of poetry, the most language intensive of the verbal arts... A good riddle should therefore have many of the virtues of a good poem. It should be economical, apposite, surprising, rhythmically satisfying, capable of unfolding or engaging the emotions."

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Animals in Poetry Posters
(KS2)

Hugely popular, not only in the junior schools they were designed for, but in libraries and community centres as well, animal poems from Tennyson to John Agard with teaching notes covering rhyme schemes, kennings and shape-poems.

CONTENTS
The Ground, Cow, Pig, Tiger (various poems)
Don't Call Alligator Long Mouth Till You Cross the River - by John Agard
Allivator - by Roger McGough
Dolphin - by Gina Douthwaite
The Eagle - by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poem - by William Carlos Williams
Whalesong - by Judith Nicholls
Kob Antelope - Yoruba verse (orig Nigeria)
The Owl and the Pussycat - by Edward Lear

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Narrative Poetry Posters
(KS2)

Four double-size posters designed for junior schools featuring The Listeners, The Jumblies, The Wreck of the Hesperus and Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death with background information and teaching notes by renowned anthologist Anne Harvey.

CONTENTS
Matilda, who told Lies and was Burned to Death - by Hilaire Belloc
The Jumblies - by Edward Lear
The Listeners - by Walter de la Mare
The Wreck of the Hesperus - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

£11.50 (inc. P&P)
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People in Poetry Posters
(KS3)

Twentieth-century poems introduce a rogue's gallery of anti-heroes for our time, selected and introduced by poet and expert poetry-teacher Matthew Sweeney.

CONTENTS
Why Brownlee Left, by Paul Muldoon
Swineherd, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
nobody loses all the time, by e.e. cummings
The River Merchant's Wife - A Letter, by Li Po (transl. Ezra Pound)
My Papa's Waltz, by Theodore Roethke
Stealing, by Carol Ann Duffy
Red Roses, by Anne Sexton
Tom Bone, by Charles Causley

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Poems on the Underground

The country's most popular public art project. We supply three sets of posters a year free to our school members, or they can be purchased individually at £3.00 a poster or at £9.99 for a set (inc.P&P).
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Books

The Poetry Book for Primary Schools

edited by Anthony Wilson and Siân Hughes

A collection of poems, games, interviews, lesson-ideas and debate to enhance poetry teaching throughout the primary years. Brought out to coincide with the Year of Reading poetry initiative, its down-to-earth expertise and humour will outlive curriculum changes for years to come.
£7.95 + £1.55 p&p
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Jumpstart
Poetry in the Secondary School

edited by Cliff Yates

A phenomenally successful teacher of poetry, Cliff Yates has seen his pupils win every prize available to young writers - how does he do it? This combination of personal vision and transferable ideas gives an insight into how poetry reading and writing can be integrated into the everyday life of secondary schools.
£7.95 + £1.55 p&p
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