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A selection of poems useful for teaching and listening to for 11-17 year olds. Please share with colleagues and other schools.
Poems which demonstrate forms and techniques (devices) here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/styles-techniques

SCHOOL YEARS 7-11

A sweltering experience.
More poems of summer here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/summer

A Hot Day by A.S.J. Tessimond

An homage to the soil beneath our feet.
More poems of the natural environment here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Ode To Dirt by Sharon Olds

Powerful and sorrowful about the afflictions of humanity and nature.
Please share with English teachers and students.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Lament by Gillian Clarke

John Lennon's words remain poignant and poetic.
More song poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/song-poems

Imagine by John Lennon

How we speak can create class prejudice.
GCSE POETRY PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-power_conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/aqa-gcse-love-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-worlds-lives
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/edexcel-time-and-place
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-belonging
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/international-gcse-edexcel
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/int-gcse-language-poetry-prose
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-wjec-eduqas
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ocr
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ccea

The Class Game by Mary Casey

Robin's revenge on Batman.
GCSE POETRY PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-power_conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/aqa-gcse-love-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-worlds-lives
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/edexcel-time-and-place
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-belonging
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/international-gcse-edexcel
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/int-gcse-language-poetry-prose
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-wjec-eduqas
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ocr
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ccea

Kid by Simon Armitage

The Russian prisoner describes the joy of being out of prison and breathing fresh air.
More poetry for high school students here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/7-12-poetry

Freedom to Breathe by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5 poems with 5 lines of 22 syllables - 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.
Seven Haikus here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/seven-haikus-by-matsuo-basho

FIVE CINQUAINS

A Japanese poetic form with 5 lines of 31 syllables - 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 - like a Haiku extension.
Five Cinquains here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/five-cinquains

THREE TANKAS

One of Australia's finest contemporary poets reflects on people's inability to deal with public grief.

An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les A. Murray

Rhododendron by Kathryn Simmonds

The relationship between museum staff and artists with paintings displayed or created. 
Another art poem here: https://on.soundcloud.com/ojHvSMmy9mY9DZkf8

Museum Piece by Richard Wilbur

Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/islands-of-essex

Essex Islands: Ray

Essex Islands: Wallasea

Essex Islands: Hamford Backwaters

Essex Islands: Introduction

Enjoy listening to my readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. I’m an ex-BBC broadcaster and self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

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