“Sheer Poetry!”
Resources on poetry by the poets themselves.
Sheerpoetry.co.uk offers a comprehensive collection of materials on poetry and poets by the poets themselves. With resources for teachers and students, workshops and libraries, interviews, essays and articles this is one site you won't be able to leave in a hurry.
- Sheerpoetry.co.uk includes:
- strategies for The Literacy Hour
- Poetry workshops by Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke and others
- Heaney on Heaney/ Clarke on Clarke/ Duffy on Duffy/ Armitage on Armitage
- Newly commissioned interviews with the poets
- Newly commissioned essays and study guides
- A section for readers, writers and lovers of contemporary poetry which will grow and develop as you do
- On-line poetry forum: discuss poetry and poets with other members, with occasional contributions from some of the poets themselves
- Junior and secondary poetry libraries selected by the poets
- Question time for students - and more!
www.sheerpoetry.co.uk will constantly update to cater for its membership.
Here's an at-a-glance listing of the topics we plan to cover over the coming months:
General Reader
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Gillian Clarke
- Gillian Clarke's Diary
- Poet of the month
- Treasures
- Interviews
- Poets on poets
Junior
- Literacy Hour
- Junior Poetry Library
- Gillian Clarke Workshop
- Carol Ann Duffy Workshop
- Junior Workshop
- Poems by children
GCSE
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Gillian Clarke
- Seamus Heaney
- Simon Armitage
- Secondary Poetry Library
- GCSE Anthology
Advanced
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Gillian Clarke
- Seamus Heaney
- Simon Armitage
- Poets on Poets
- Dissertations
- Interviews
Forum
- as a sheerpoetry subscriber you'll have access to our discussion forums where you can participate in threads on poets and poetry with occasional input from some of the poets themselves.
