Touchstones: A Teaching Anthology of Poetry
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English
ISBN
9781510476745
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Title Page
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Contents
To the teacher
Part A Writers and writing
A1 Playing with words
Kevin Dickson Guitar
Alan Riddell Revolver
Guillaume Apollinaire The Evening Star
Anon. My Cello
Anon. There was an old fellow from Tring…
Anon. A ‘foodie’, while dining at Crewe…
Anon. There was a young lady of Twickenham…
Ogden Nash A flea and a fly in a flue…
Kevin Crossley-Holland (trans.) My breast is puffed up…
J.R.R. Tolkien Alive without breath…
Christina Rossetti There is one that has a head…
Matsuo Basho The grasshoppers’ cry…
James Kirkup In the village pond…
Alan Brownjohn Cat
A2 Sound and rhythm
William Shakespeare from The Tempest
Walter de la Mare Echo
Eleanor Farjeon Cats
Wilfrid Noyce Breathless
John Agard Limbo Dancer’s Mantra
Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid
William Wordsworth Skating
W.H. Auden The Quarry
A3 Comparisons
Shiki In the Moonlight
Sora The Barleyfield
Richard Kell from ‘Pigeons’
Norman Nicholson from ‘The Imprint of a Sea Shell’
Ted Hughes from ‘A Donkey’
John Agard from ‘If only I could take home a snowflake’
Gareth Owen Boredom
Phoebe Hesketh from ‘Cats’
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro
Carl Sandburg Fog
John Agard A Date With Spring
Robin Robertson La Stanza Delle Mosche
A4 Five senses
Carol Ann Duffy The Oldest Girl in the World
John Cotton Listen
Richard Church Quiet
Peter Benton Sharpener
Seamus Heaney Blackberry Picking
A5 Writing and thinking
Ted Hughes The Thought-Fox
Ted Hughes The Stag
Sylvia Plath Morning Song
Sylvia Plath Balloons
Simon Armitage Puddle
Simon Armitage Snow
To Take You Further
Grace Nichols Epilogue
Part B Readers and reading
B6 Reading and thinking
Phoebe Hesketh Paint Box
Sophie Hannah Your Dad Did What?
Arun Kolatkur The Butterfly
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle
Edward Thomas Cock-Crow
Tony Connor A Child Half-Asleep
Phoebe Hesketh Days
Philip Larkin Days
B7 Reading with the eye and with the ear
Kate Clanchy Outside
Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist
Gareth Owen Out in the City
James Berry Lisn Big Brodda Dread, Na!
Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda
Benjamin Zephaniah Talking Turkeys
B8 Reading aloud
Fleur Adcock The Telephone Call
Elizabeth Jennings The Young Ones
Norman McCaig Neighbour
Gita Bedi ’Ere, she said
Charles Causley Miller’s End
Jackie Kay English Cousin Comes to Scotland
Lennon and McCartney She’s Leaving Home
B9 Ideas and attitudes
William Blake A Poison Tree
William Blake The Tyger
Grace Nichols Be a Butterfly
Thomas Hardy In Church
Sophie Hannah Summary of a Western
Edmund Spenser Gluttony
Fleur Adcock For Heidi With Blue Hair
Wilfred Owen The Send-Off
Kate Clanchy War Poetry
Imtiaz Dharker A Century Later
Simon Armitage Ark
Michael Benton Song of the Satellite
Michael Rosen These Are the Hands
B10 Feelings and moods
Michael Rosen Going Through the Old Photos
Grace Nichols Hey There Now!
Owen Sheers Not Yet My Mother
Walter de la Mare Autumn
Daljit Nagra In a White Town
Roger McGough The Railings
Jackie Kay Divorce
To Take You Further
Part C Patterns on the page
C11 Syllabic forms
Colin Rowbotham Rain Haiku
Kenneth Yasuda The Mississippi River
Sarah Wardle Housework Haiku
Atsutada Since I Have Loved You
Dominic Dowell Tree
Adelaide Crapsey Three Cinquains
Rebecca Bazeley Mr Death at the Door
Sylvia Plath Metaphors
C12 Rhyming couplets
Stevie Smith This Englishwoman
Robert Frost Forgive, O Lord
Ogden Nash Children aren’t happy…
Alexander Pope I am his Highness’ dog…
T.E. Hulme Above the Dock
Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ben Jonson On My First Sonne
Charles Causley Infant Song
C13 Ballads
Anon. from Sir Patrick Spens
Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Charles Causley from Ballad of the Bread Man
Anon. The Outlandish Knight
Anon. The Unquiet Grave
Anon. Twa Corbies
Two Crows
Anon. The Cherry–Tree Carol
Anon. Mother and Maiden
Charles Causley Mary, Mary Magdalene
Charles Causley What Has Happened to Lulu?
C14 Free verse
D.H. Lawrence Bat
Raymond Souster Flight of the Roller-Coaster
Colin Rowbotham Dissection
John Agard Half-Caste
Ted Hughes Mooses
C15 Sonnets
John Milton On His Blindness
Edwin Morgan Glasgow Sonnet
William Shakespeare Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare Sonnet 116
Wendy Cope Shakespeare at School
Carol Ann Duffy Prayer
William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
e.e. cummings next to of course god america i
To Take You Further
Anon. Young Shakespeare ‘Hoist with his own petard’
Part D Creative and critical writing
D16 The poet as maker
Seamus Heaney Digging
Sue Kelly Butterfly
Shukria Rezaei I Want a Poem
Michael Shepherd A Wish
Liz Lochhead Kidspoem/Bairnsang
Imtiaz Dharker Minority
D17 Reading poems… Reading paintings
Phoebe Hesketh A Poem Is a Painting
Heather Harvey Time Transfixed
Peter Benton Perspectives
Julie O’Callaghan Automat
Sylvia Kantaris Growing Pains
U.A. Fanthorpe Not My Best Side
D18 You are the poet
Jasmine Burgess A Girl Is Told to Always Keep Writing
Zoe Benton Mouthful of Marbles
Anon. Amazed Cat
Elisabeth Tall Poplars in Stormy Weather
John Curtains
Colin Rowbotham Relative Sadness
Michael Egbe Cape
Elizabeth Windsor The Merry-Go-Round
Clare Redstone My Mind Knows the Words
Lucy Thynne the parents anniversary
D19 You are the critic: Approaching an unseen poem
Tony Harrison Long Distance II
Rebecca Watts The Met Office Advises Caution
Dorothea Smartt home
Imtiaz Dharker Blessing
Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon
Hollie McNish Cocoon
D20 Poems to compare
Don Marquis The Tom-cat
Ted Hughes Esther’s Tomcat
Phoebe Hesketh Clown
Elizabeth Jennings The Clown III
Imtiaz Dharker Bloom
Carol Ann Duffy The Light Gatherer
Kate Tempest For My Niece
Philip Larkin Born Yesterday
John Agard Woodpecker
Ted Hughes Woodpecker
To Take You Further
Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth
Glossary
List of poets
Acknowledgements
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