by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 resources, Resources
All of the poems in issue 5 are also available as free poem-posters to download, print and display. There are also free, downloadable teaching resources around the poems ‘A Dreamy Afternoon on the Common’ by Rhiannon Oliver, ‘The Pond’ by Hugh Dunkerley, and ‘What...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
They shift above: The face of a man with a beard as long As his wait for love, A woman dancing free, arms reaching, reaching, A lost dolphin leaping, A giant frog, complete with bunny’s tail, Half a whale, Another face – wide eyes staring, wild hair flaring, A planet...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
Let’s go see what the tide brought in, Down to the shore with the keeping tin. Scrump’ll come too – he’ll swim. Pebbles and stones and sea-stripped twigs. Seaweed clumps like mermaid wigs. Scrump’ll come too – he’ll dig. A chunk of sea glass, big as your thumb. A...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
An amazing pink and red and yellow coloured factory has just gone up in the city square. It seems to float lightly on top of a delicate thin green tower. Its shape is hard to describe. It’s full of windows, doors to let the sunlight and the workers in, who all arrive...
by Rachel Piercey | Jul 21, 2023 | Issue 5 poems
While we were gone today the pond, fed up with being left outside, broke in through the back door. It trickled round the house, leaving a snail here, a tadpole there, a green stain on the armchair. It must have been in the bath – the taps were slimy – and Dad’s...
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