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Poetry on Friday – Robbie Burns
Posted on22. Jan, 2010 by Rachael.
On 25th January, Scotland and many Scots around the world will be celebrating the life and works of national Bard, Robert Burns with A Burns’ Night Supper.
Sparkle’s Poetry on Friday spot is a perfect opportunity to share some of his wonderful poems.
The first Burns poem I read was Tam o’Shanter, at school in an English [...]
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Poetry on Friday – Late by Christopher Reid
Posted on15. Jan, 2010 by Rachael.
Christopher Reid’s touchingly beautiful tribute to his late wife recently won a Costa Book Award in the ‘Poetry’ category. A Scattering is made up of four sequences and covers the heartbreak of watching his beloved wife die and his life afterwards[...]
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Poetry on Friday…on Saturday!
Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Mike.
The relationship between music and poetry has always been close so I ´d like to share this song/poem by David Bowie,
Just eight lines of gorgeousness which was included on his classic Hunky Dory album from 1971 [...]
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Poetry on Friday – Christmas poems
Posted on18. Dec, 2009 by Rachael.
I’ve learnt a thing or two about our Sparklers in these past months – some of those things are that we love poetry, we’ve got a wicked sense of humour and, in the words of Jack our Movies Man, we don’t care too much for “Laura Ashley style of poetry”. So…I’ve picked funny and ‘peculiar’ Christmas poems for our Poetry on Friday spot this week. I hope you enjoy them [...]
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