For teachers and students - examples of forms and techniques (devices).
See also Secondary School poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/7-12-poetry

POETIC FORMS & TECHNIQUES

Probably the bard's most famous sonnet,
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

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

What you need to know about the poetic form.
More poems about form and technique here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/styles-techniques

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

Imaginative wonderings. Another poem of wisdom here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/eternity-by-william-blake

Dreams by Langston Hughes

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

Be Specific by Mauree Applegate

A haiku for each of the 12 months.
Documentary series about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A Haiku Yearbook by Anthony Thwaite

Something for snoozing.
More Keats here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats

To Sleep by John Keats

The bard’s description of the ages of life.
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

All The World's A Stage by William Shakespeare

A sound evocation of an exciting tennis match at Wimbledon.
Poems of form and technique here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/styles-techniques

Thwok! by Matt Harvey

Advice on what poems should be.
More poetic forms and techniques here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/styles-techniques

Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

Classic nonsense poem from 'Alice in Wonderland'.
More poems for secondary school study here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/7-12-poetry

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Fun with similes. Loved teaching this poem to Year 7 classes in the UK.

The Reader Of This Poem by Roger McGough

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

Totally terrific tale about teeth.
More silly verse here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/young-poems

Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth by Pam Ayres

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

A fun rhyming poem about multiple ice cream flavours.
More poems for young ones here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/young-poems

Bleezer's Ice Cream by Jack Prelutsky

The Sound Collector by Roger McGough

A classic Australian bush ballad.
More Australian poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/australian-poets

Clancy Of The Overflow by A.B. (Banjo) Paterson

In praise of the banger, known as a snag in Oz.

Ode To A Sausage by Kel Richards

What can happen in front of an audience.
More amusing poetry here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/witty

Openin' Night by Shel Silverstein

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.

POETIC FORMS & TECHNIQUES

Anton Jarvis