Neil Bowen

Art of Poetry Neil Bowen

This revised and expanded version of our companion book to The Art of Poetry 15, is a concise anthology, featuring Pre-C20th poems chosen especially with KS3 pupils in mind. Starting with Sappho, Ovid and Dante, the anthology takes pupils chronologically on a journey through key developments in poetry up to the cusp of the present day. On the way, pupils will come across some familiar names, with poems by the likes of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickinson, but there will be plenty of new discoveries too. Some of the poems will certainly present a challenge for this age group, but these are leavened with more accessible ones. In The Art of Poetry, volume 16, pupils will encounter poems about heroism and love, ghosts and giants, villains and monsters, romance and gunfights, identity and friendship, animals and outlaws, and much more besides.