Friend
Poems by Young People
Published on 26. April 2023
128 pages
978-1-80075-296-2 (ISBN)
Description
I text you how much
?it hurts not to see you.
Here are poems about love, loss, mothers, fathers, God, rain and growing up. About all the things that poems are always about, in fact, with one crucial difference. Instead of being remembered from an adult distance, these poems were written by a diverse group of teenagers direct from their own experience. So as well as being clever, funny and moving, they are also immediate - they go straight to the heart like a text from a friend.
Most of these poems are by pupils from a single multicultural comprehensive school, Oxford Spires Academy. Many have already been social media sensations: some students' poems, for instance, have been retweeted over 100,000 times.
A donation from the sale of this book will be made to the charity Asylum Welcome.
?it hurts not to see you.
Here are poems about love, loss, mothers, fathers, God, rain and growing up. About all the things that poems are always about, in fact, with one crucial difference. Instead of being remembered from an adult distance, these poems were written by a diverse group of teenagers direct from their own experience. So as well as being clever, funny and moving, they are also immediate - they go straight to the heart like a text from a friend.
Most of these poems are by pupils from a single multicultural comprehensive school, Oxford Spires Academy. Many have already been social media sensations: some students' poems, for instance, have been retweeted over 100,000 times.
A donation from the sale of this book will be made to the charity Asylum Welcome.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for England: Poems from a School:'Not just good for school children, but great by any standard' - Phillip Pullman
'These young poets are writing their lives with heartbreaking immediacy' - Imtiaz Dharker
'I doubt I will read anything as moving for a very long time' - Evie Wyld
'Exceptional. All unflinching truths and zero pretentiousness' - Nathan Filer
'Helping us to see the world with a startling freshness, these lovely poems fill me with hope' - Sarah Howe
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-80075-296-2 (9781800752962)
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Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. Her writing has won many prizes, including a Forward Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award and the Orwell Book Prize for Political Writing. A previous anthology of her students' work, England: Poems from a School, was published to great acclaim in 2018. She tweets as @KateClanchy1
Content
- Intro
- Also by Kate Clanchy
- Friend,
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Life and Times of Bedroom Floor
- I didn't come from
- My Dog
- Bookish
- Places to Cry
- Year 7
- Resolution
- Tent
- Friends
- Mad Bull
- Eraser
- Learning English
- Sham
- My Spelling
- Friend
- Vsst
- Joke
- People Pleaser
- OX4
- Ode to my Ceiling
- in between the cracks
- My brother
- Sister
- Back
- Aunt
- Mum,
- Grief
- Grandfather
- Grandma, at least
- The Place I Once Called Home
- Wish
- My Lonely Does Dressage
- Mingy
- Silence has its imperfections
- Lexicon of the Mountain River
- Full Length Portrait of the Wind
- Zero
- Moon
- Geography
- The Sea Refuses to be a Sonnet
- Day Trip
- Rain
- I took God with me camping
- When all this is over
- To Live
- For My Future Lover
- Romance
- Boars Hill
- You say nothing ever happens
- Boys
- Still
- Love
- Icarus
- Love
- I love you back
- Long Distance Relationship
- Goodbye
- Sundaes on a Sunday
- My bed broke up with me
- Stained
- The hair you brushed is being cut off
- I always never wanted to be an adult
- Equine
- My heart is a cockroach, caught in the mouth of an alley cat
- The Most Romantic Thing Ever
- When I Was a Kid I Waited
- I've learned to go back
- Sister
- My Mother
- Want
- My mother tells me she cannot
- Mother of Flip-flops
- The Child Under My Ribs
- Dad
- Lyndon
- Mother's Day
- Ode
- The Heart in Winter
- Covering Freud
- Exam Questions
- Appointments
- One of me is writing again,
- My Teacher
- Grown ups
- To Do at Uni
- Today
- Note
- What I Miss When I'm Away
- The Story of this Book
- The Poets
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page
