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(image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand)

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This was published one year ago with the wonderful and energetic Beir Bua Press. And after their short but prolific period of publishing innovative poetry, the press is closing at the end of this month. All their texts, including mine (https://beirbuapress.com/2022/06/07/there4-by-mike-ferguson/), will be available until the end of June, and then no more.

(you can view my launch in the book link above)

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The Home is is mine too – this teachit posting following from previous in my email notifications – and as a list poem it has always proved to be one of the more accessible and productive writing ideas for presenting in the classroom (in my experience).

Many of my poetry writing classroom resources are avilable free to download here: https://copycatter.blog/

Surprised and pleased to see the above email notification this morning – one of my teachit poetry writing ideas as a suggestion, this from 2011.

So much that teachit promotes/sells these days (years) is much more functional and linked to curriculum dictates, which I understand given teacher needs/desires/expectations.

Being proudly old-school, my poetry resources were and still are always about helping students to write them. I think this one can still work, unless ‘blood’ references are now problematic. I did remove the incubus and succubus ideas with examples from these student resources…

The poems from this resource: