[Photos – different times and different hair [!] but the love was and is always the same]

Delighted to work with Dean Ferris – Film Lecturer and Filmmaker – on this short of my erasure poem Truths written especially for National Poetry Day, 3rd October.

You can watch it here.

The Truth erasure poem writing resource, and others, are available for free on this site here.

A prime example of
authoritative and warmth,

demands and warmth,
hurt and warmth;

but low levels of warmth,
tepid warmth,

not doing many amounts
of warmth:

strictly, this is a flexible
approximation of warmth.

This is a technique
by words,

this balancing,
this equilibrium,

this strict/
this warm –

warm/strict
wavering on

technicalities of
their words.

warm/strict
warm/sick
warm/stick
warm/shtick

harm/strict
harm/sick
harm/stick
harm/shtick

The theme for this year’s National Poetry Day on the 3^rd October is Truth.

All of the following resources are designed to encourage and support students to write poetry on the theme of Truth. The ideas are not about reading poems and then spotting/commenting on devices used and similar. Hopefully students will share their work, but this is about creating, not analysing.

Downloads [right click]

1. Truth Poems – Truth Lines

2. Truth Poems – When I

3. Truth Poems – Truth Text Erasure

Truth Erasure Text [in Word]

Truth Erasure Text

3b. Truth Erasure Text eg1

3c. Truth Erasure Text eg2

3d. Truth Erasure Text eg3

A little long in the tooth, but this following resource gives a user’s guide to erasure/found poetry, written for students as explanation/guidance.

Humuments 1

Humuments 2

The following are ‘Truth’ quotes you might wish to use as discussion/prompts. There are also two more ‘truth’ texts for possible erasure.

4. The Poetry of Truth Quotes

4a. The Poetry of Truth Quotes Erasure Text

4b. Found The Poetry of Truth Quotes Erasure Text

‘Truths’ film: a reading of the Truth erasure poem – can be found here.

Thank you Rupert and International Times for posting my found prose poem here at IT today. What a potent image selected!

My erasure of the Mueller Report in book form, but there is only this one copy [self-published].

There are extracts published here and there on this site and a few online magazines, but anyone wanting to read the whole text is welcome to access the free pdf download below.

At a contemporary historical peak in the fight between truth and lies – obviously the Trump presidential campaign from which Mueller found plenty of subterfuge and disinformation; PM Boris Johnson’s compulsive aversion to the truth, and this year’s National Poetry Day theme of Truth – this is, I trust, a timely delve into all kinds of subversion.

Muellerasure

Free classroom poetry writing resources available soon.