How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13

Michaela Morgan is a practising poet, children’s author, writer and former teacher. She runs workshops and courses in the UK and internationally.

Acknowledgements  Introduction - Writers’ Workshop  A to Z of Poetry  Workshop 1. Licensed to Thrill - performing poetry  Workshop 2. Monday’s Child – rhyming couplets  Workshop 3. The Day the Zoo Escaped – redrafting  Workshop 4. Every Word Counts – awareness of syllables, haiku  Workshop 5. Fin Flapper – kennings  Workshop 6. Waves - shape/concrete poetry  Workshop 7. Further On – wordplay  Workshop 8. Space Rap - performance poetry  Workshop 9. The Robin - rhyming or unrhyming poetry  Workshop 10. Poem Hunt – senses  Workshop 11. I am a Baggy T-Shirt – Metaphor  Workshop 12. The Sound Collector – onomatopoeia  Workshop 13. Nocturnophobia – personification  Workshop 14. Three - levels of meaning  Workshop 15. December - different cultures and voices  Workshop 16. Hubble Bubble - classic and contemporary  Workshop 17. Charge of the Light Brigade - narrative poetry  Workshop 18. The Dead Quire - challenging narrative poetry