POEMS ABOUT EVENTS IN, OR SPECIFIC PERIODS OR PEOPLE OF HISTORY
I have written many of my poems specifically for use in schools, so they are often about, or influenced by specific topics on the curriculum. I have therefore listed below all of the poems which are connected with or written about periods, people or events in history. However, if you are looking for a topic even more specific, I have categorised them further into PEOPLE AND HISTORIC EVENTS, TUDORS, WORLD WAR TWO, VICTORIAN MINING.
History Poems
Remembering the Armenian Genocide 1915
Please share this poem freely in support of Armenia’s ongoing struggle to receive a full acknowledgement from the world, and from Turkey, of the genocide of 1915. Also, watch the video of the song released to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the genocide.
24th April 2016 marks the 101st anniversary of the crime, yet the survivors have continued unto death, dealing not only with the original genocide of their race, but with the ongoing denial of the crime itself. They need peace. [click to continue…]
I wept this morning for a man I never even met!
I wept because I am afraid….lest the world forget!
I realised that each of us has a part to play
To keep what Nelson stood for alive from day to day. [click to continue…]
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This factual mining poem about the role of the canary in Victorian mines uses personification and metaphors to describe the way a miner felt about these life-saving birds. [click to continue…]
I have put together a page of winning children’s poems by Fitzwilliam Primary School on the topic of Victorian child miners. They include lots of figurative language such as alliteration, personification, similes and metaphors, and different poem forms such as acrostics, list poems and senses poems. [click to continue…]
