POETRY WRITING GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS
POETRY WRITING GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS
FOR KICK IT OUT AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Make rough notes on the following before you start to construct your poem.
1.Do you have any personal experiences you want to write about? – for example, playing in a game.
2.Any experiences or ideas from watching sport in a crowd, on TV, or reading?
3. Any thoughts about stars and racism? – for example, Henry and Heskey in European games this season.
4. Your thoughts about how you want to see Britain develop as a multi-cultural society in this new century.
5. Research to help you – good websites, www.kickitout.org excellent with good links too. Also click on our Kick Racism Out logo on our home page and click on the Channel 4 logo – that will take you to the excellent C4 Black and Asian History website. Also, look at www.cbc-clcstudents.org.uk – click on 4 Teachers and then click on writing frames(with pictures to view) – the one on Bend It Like Beckham will be especially helpful. It will lead you into thinking about how to build a successful multi-cultural 21st century Britain.
NOW YOU ARE READY TO CONVERT YOUR ROUGH NOTE INTO YOUR POEM. HERE’S A FEW CLUES AND IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO WRITE.
(a.) Don’t think of a rhyme first! If you do then your search for the next rhyme will control your thoughts! Let your thoughts control your search for a rhyme!
(b.) If you are rhyming, will your poem rhyme on every other line – ababab etc? Or will you go for rhyming couplets – aa, bb, etc?
(c.) Will you have the same number of syllables in each line or not?
(d.) Will you write blank verse – no rhyme but the same number of each syllables on each line?
(e.) Or free verse – no rhyme and lines of different length and syllable number.
(f.) Or an acrostic poem – eg:
K
I
C
K
I
T
O
U
T
You can, of course, make up your own relevant acrostic! Good luck! We look forward to your entry and good luck with the prizes! And many thanks for joining in
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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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3rd September 2023 at 6:55 pm
Play Up Pompey indeed Richard .
My first ever proper game when i was 10 was Chelsea 7-4 Pompey on Xmas morning 1959, Greavesie got 4.
First visited Fratton Park with Chelsea (2-2) and stood among loads of sailors back in the old Second Dvision early 60s . That’s when I first heard the Pompey Chimes..
Last visited in the mid 2000s to run a football poetry workshop on racism with local young students in the Study Centre you had then at the time.
Had a great chat with some of your fans when you came here to Forest Green last season…
best wishes
Crispin
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1st September 2023 at 7:17 pm
Cliché heaven or hell..we get it all
Welcome to Football Poets John
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28th August 2023 at 10:54 am
Thanks Crispin – noted re the boxer! Never know, perhaps we’ll get Forest Green in the cup… or Chelsea!
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27th August 2023 at 4:47 pm
Hey Rowan
Tough line up of opening fixtures but werlcome to the National League and to Football Poets.
I’ve often passed your ground but never actually been.
Had to remove the boxert poem , sorry ….only poems about football, though i did read your tenuous link!
best wishes
Crispin -Editor
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6th August 2023 at 3:46 pm
Don’t worry Apollo, I have examined the evidence on YouTube – he looks great, the real deal!
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7th July 2023 at 5:26 pm
Let’s Hope for your sake Denys, that he doesn’t turn out to be from La-la-Land!
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1st July 2023 at 6:33 pm
Lovely imagery in your Blyth poem Greg
C
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