Creative Poetry Writing

by Spiro, Jane; Maley, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780194421898
• ISBN10: 0194421899
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book provides practical ideas for teaching poetry through a variety of activities including singing, metaphors, and similes.

Author Biography

Jane Spiro is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University

Table of Contents

The authors and series editor	p. 1
Foreword	p. 3
Introduction	p. 5
How to use this book	p. 13
Sound poems	p. 17
Animal sound poems: Contented lions	p. 17
Onomatopoeic poems: Snoring Englishmen	p. 22
Nickname poems: Garihumbabi, pyramid priest	p. 24
Rhyming poems: Heart where you feel	p. 26
Rhythm poems: Gone to London	p. 27
Alliterative poems: The Cute Creams	p. 29
Wordplay poems	p. 32
Word invention poems: beginnings of words Subview-the view from the floor	p. 32
Word invention poems: the ends of words Powerful mice	p. 35
Grammar play poems: Honeying the girls	p. 38
Opposites poems: Idlis and chapattis	p. 41
Preposition poems: Water everywhere	p. 44
Word association poems: Red, the money goddess	p. 46
Wordmixing poems	p. 48
Similes about language learning: Words like sea shells	p. 49
Similes about people: Sister like a flower	p. 50
Idiom poems: As dear as a donkey	p. 53
Adjective/noun poems: The kind snow	p. 55
Metaphor poems: Hope is a spoon	p. 59
Weather poems: The snorting storm	p. 61
Sentence pattern poems	p. 64
I can, I can't: I can hear the rain	p. 64
Inner questions: Where are you?	p. 67
Conversation poems: OK, bye-bye	p. 69
Orders and commands: Stones as souvenirs	p. 71
Relative clauses: I wonder who paints butterflies	p. 74
I know poem: My mother knows my shoe size	p. 76
Poems about first days: Surprised by mashed potato	p. 79
Mashed sentence poem: I am fond of bananas	p. 81
Time poems	p. 83
Poems about age: Being young, being old	p. 83
Busy activity poems: Here is a beehive	p. 85
Ancient monuments speak: Slaves and princes	p. 88
Memory poems: Now I'm a poet	p. 90
Inner and outer poems: Not climbing but falling	p. 92
Talking about the past: I remember the sight of nothing	p. 95
Feelings: If love was a sweet	p. 96
Modal verb poems	p. 100
Guessing poems: A note folded inside a diary	p. 100
Ideal world poems: A place with no schools	p. 103
Values poem: You can't cuddle money	p. 104
Giving advice: If you want to be free	p. 106
Poetry market: Poems for sale!	p. 108
New Community Ten Commandments: Be kind when you can	p. 111
Language function poems	p. 113
Poems about finding the way: On the corner of night and dreams	p. 113
Poems about getting rid of unwanted clutter: The reject shop	p. 116
Fairy-tale advice column: Glass shoes	p. 120
Celebrating and inviting poems: Seeing snow	p. 123
Poems comparing likes and preferences: Tigers and oranges	p. 125
Praise-songs: My magnificent bull	p. 128
Genre poems	p. 131
Recipe poems: Custard kisses	p. 131
Memo poems: I have forgotten to take the rose	p. 134
List poems: Tom's Blue-Eye astrologer's shop	p. 136
Diary poems: First pair of high heels	p. 139
Postcard poems: Greetings from the moon	p. 140
Answerphone messages: Press nothing	p. 143
Greetings card jumble poem: Merry birthday	p. 145
Poetry games	p. 147
Mini-sagas: There was a boy from Turkey	p. 147
Chain poems: Snake in the grass	p. 150
Expanding poems: Roses at the wedding	p. 152
Shape poems: Write my country	p. 154
Alphabet poems: His the high jump	p. 157
Riddles: I waved and he waved back	p. 159
Poems as stories: Go and open the door	p. 162
First times and last times: First he was a boy, then he was a man	p. 162
Now and then poems: When I was good	p. 164
Inner language, outer language: The music is playing	p. 166
Poems about family members	p. 169
Family sagas: My grandmother's bed	p. 171
Poems about changes: First I was, Then I was	p. 173
A visualization poem: Go and open the door	p. 175
Poetry forms	p. 179
Poems which count syllables	p. 179
Poems which repeat lines	p. 181
Poems with special rhyme schemes	p. 181
Poems which have special rhythms	p. 183
Poems which have a special mood	p. 183
Glossary of key words	p. 184
Further reading	p. 191
Collections of short poems for the classroom	p. 191
Resource books for teachers	p. 191
Articles and discussions about poetry in the classroom	p. 192
Useful websites for poetry	p. 192
Dictionaries and reference books	p. 192
Index	p. 193
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