Friday, September 7, 2012

The Range of the Human Voice

Simon Armitage today with "The Shout":


Katya is our Poetry Friday host.

5 comments:

  1. Wow-I didn't 'hear' that coming, Tabatha. I wonder how much truth, I like the way he started with his 'little' story, that became so much bigger. Thank you for finding & sharing.

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  2. Awesome science teacher poem! What a wonderful story. You can hear the impression this teacher made.

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  3. Wow. Powerful. Thanks for sharing, Tabatha.

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  4. Thanks for bringing us back to this post! What a shocking ending in that first poem!

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  5. "It's at that point where the experiment breaks down that I try to get the poetry to rush in."

    I enjoyed both these poems, but this quote is something else, something bigger.

    I guess I'd be less ignorant if I skipped NCTE one year and went to Dodge instead...

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