“Sheer Poetry!”
Resources on poetry by the poets themselves.
Sheerpoetry.co.uk is an innovative and constantly changing new UK poetry site.
Sheer Poetry has sections for primary teachers and students, secondary teachers and students, and for university level and the general poetry reader. Here you will find poems, articles, workshops, interviews and essays, question sessions and more, about and by Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, and others.
Sign up for only £12 and you'll get a year's access to exclusive articles, poetry archives and online discussion forums featuring some of the poets themselves.
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What's New
Latest updates on the Sheer Poetry web site
30 May 2008
Who's Zoomin' Who? A new essay from Janet Lewison compares and contrasts the nature of intimate relationships as explored in Carol Ann Duffy's 'Warming her Pearls' and Sarah Waters' 'Fingersmith. Find it in the Advanced section.
29th April 2008
The Manchester Poetry Prize 2008
The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is launching The Manchester Poetry Prize - a new literary competition celebrating excellence in creative writing. Open to writers internationally, this competition will award a cash prize of £10,000 to the writer of the best portfolio of poems submitted. In addition, a bursary for study at MMU will be awarded to an entrant aged 18-25 as part of the Manchester Young Writer of the Year Award.
For further details and entry go to www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk.
Deadline for entries: 1st August 2008
17 April 2008
Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Helen Taylor have compiled a collection of 20 poems for use in the classroom, complete with hints and tips for classroom activities to develop and stimulate childrens' understanding of poetry and wordplay. You can find this new section in the Junior Poetry Library.
19 December 2007
Just added in Storytime in the General Reader and just in time for Christmas: 'In the Beginning' by Gillian Clarke, a dragon tale.
24 September 2007
And yet another exclusive for Sheerpoetry: available in the General Reader is the theatre script for Carol Ann Duffy's 'Casanova' which is being performed around the country from September to December 2007 by theatre company TOLD BY AN IDIOT.
17 September 2007
Janet Lewison has contributed an article on 'Demeter' from 'The World's Wife' in which she argues that the sonnet may be Carol Ann Duffy's most brilliant poem.
