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.

Ministry of Defence Calling!

28 January 2012

VROOP VROOP! Red alert! Aliens have landed. Their spaceship is on fire…. It looks like they are stranded.

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Evacuee’s Postcard Home

27 January 2012

    This creative shape poem hints at the stiff upper lip attitude, as well as the boy’s eagerness to reassure Mum.  It includes lots of emotion, plus creative word play in the address.

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Child Mine Workers

25 January 2012

    This senses poem includes lots of figurative language such as personification, adjectives, alliteration and metaphors that the children of Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary school gave me during a poetry workshop about life down the mines for the poor Victorian children in Britain.

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