Axed Between the Ears: A Poetry AnthologyDavid Kitchen A collection of poems and activities designed to win over the most reluctant 14- to 16-year-olds |
Contents
The Playground | 3 |
Mabel | 9 |
Petronella | 15 |
Riddles | 22 |
Geriatric Ward | 28 |
Daily London Recipe | 36 |
Meditation on the A30 | 42 |
Plug In Turn On Look Out | 84 |
Eat Drink and Be Sick | 90 |
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | 96 |
Common terms and phrases
Adrian Henri Adrian Mitchell animal Anthony Thwaite Arrowsmith B. S. JOHNSON budgie cabbages choose Daily London Recipe dark David Gill dead dear death describe door drink Dumb Insolence DUNCAN BUSH eyes father feel feet Friday Nights friends Geraint Jarman Geriatric Ward Green Beret Gresford Disaster hair hand happened Harri Webb hear kids Kill the Children leave Leslie Norris live look Mabel Martian Sends MICHAEL ROSEN mother never Nice girls Nooligan parents Pat Arrowsmith Peerless Jim Driscoll Petronella PHOEBE HESKETH Pneumoconiosis Poetry Postcard Home prison pupils Recipe Take remember rhyme ROGER MCGOUGH Roger Palmer ruined Sends a Postcard Sequence of Poems sheep sick someone Song squirrel stare STEVE TURNER stood teacher teeth tell there's thing trees turn Vernon Scannell verse walked watch whale wife words write