THE POETRY PACK Contents Introduction Fragments of a poem Homecoming: Anse La Raye Derek Walcott History Maura Dooley A poem verse by verse In a Notebook James Fenton Straight talking A Poison Tree William Blake Lady, Weeping At the Crossroads W.H. Auden Mixed up poems Does It Matter? Siegfried Sassoon The Next War Wilfred Owen Dramatic monologues My Last Duchess Robert Browning Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson Spring Cleaning Jean 'Binta' Breeze Presenting linked poems Sugar Cane Grace Nichols Song of Myself Walt Whitman The Whitman grassses Ewart Milne Poems on a theme The Sari Moniza Alvi An Irish Childhood in England: 1951 Eavan Boland Spaghetti Western Lavinia Greenlaw Jigsawing groups One need not be Chamber - to be Haunted Emily Dickinson Desert Places Robert Frost Prophecy Elinor Wylie The Dark Roy Fuller Choices and structures For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) Lorna Goodison I Am Becoming My Mother Lorna Goodison A reading trail Miracle on St. David's Day Gillian Clarke Extract from a Journal Dorothy Wordsworth Why Dorothy Wordsworth Is Not as Famous as Her Brother Lynne Peters Daffodils William Wordsworth Creating an image Valentine Carol Ann Duffy A Lecture Upon the Shadow John Donne A story in verse or prose Mariana Alfred, Lord Tennyson Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Poems as polemics Initial Illumination Tony Harrison This is the Dark Time, My Love Martin Carter Rock-Stone Dance Merle Collins A poem in draft Cricket Ball Dannie Abse Arguing back to a poem To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell An Answer to a Love Letter Lady Mary Wortley Montagu What is a poem? No Memorial Joolz Some of my Worst Wounds Lorna Goodison Making Poetry Anne Stevenson This Poem Norman Silver Poet-tree Earle Birney Poetry John Hegley How to Eat a Poem Eve Merriam In My Craft or Sullen Art Dylan Thomas I Poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze Visualising poems Homecoming: Anse La Raye Derek Walcott Daddy Sylvia Plath In an artist's studio The Arnolfini Marriage Paul Durcan In An Artist's Studio Christina Rossetti Standing Female Nude Carol Ann Duffy At the National Gallery Judith Kazantzis The poet observing the world Extract from a Journal Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: to Christ our Lord Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry games The Titles Game The Guess-the-Poet Game The Guess-the-Poet Revision Game Poetry Hide and Seek Writing a critical commentary Wild Peaches Elinor Wylie Guidance sheets Annotating a Poem A Framework for Exploring a Poem Performing a Poem