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Poetry

  • 12 Taonga
    From the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, biographies and a poetry reading from Julia Allen, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Lynda Chanwai-Earle, Riemke Ensing, Janet Frame, Rob Jackaman, Olivia Macassey, Jenny Powell-Chalmers, L E Scott, Bill Sewell, Apirana Taylor, and Richard von Sturmer. Levels 5–8
  • Barking Spiders and Other Such Stuff
    A collection of poetry written from a child's point of view. Levels 1–4
  • BBC Arts: Poetry
    An online celebration of poetry that includes poets reading their poems, tips on writing poetry, links to BBC shows about poetry, and a section that allows you to play with words as you write your own poem. Levels 1–8
  • Best New Zealand Poems
    An online collection of poems from contemporary New Zealand poets. Levels 5–8
  • The Children's Laureate 2007–2009
    Read about UK Children’s Laureates and take advantage of the video clips and other resources to create a poetry-friendly classroom.
  • English – Poetry
    "Skoool" presents multimedia readings of 12 well-known poems covering a broad selection of poets and themes. Each poem is accompanied by a lesson plan and learning intentions.
  • GCSE Bitesize Poetry Slideshow
    Students can listen to audio of poems read aloud, accompanied by a photo slideshow to help them understand the ideas presented. Poems are grouped under pre-1914 poetry, post-1914 poetry, and poetry from different cultures. There are poems by William Blake, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Alfred Lord Tennyson, W B Yeats, Walt Whitman, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Levels 5–8
  • Glossary of Poetic Terms
  • Handbook of Poetic Terms
    An online handbook of poetic terms. Five sections cover the basics: paradox and personification, ambiguity and consonance, rhythm, meter, stanzas, and verse forms.
  • The Internet Poetry Archive
    This site contains readings from Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
  • New Zealand Literature File: This University of Auckland site offers a selective list of New Zealand and Pacific authors' work and provides references to biographical and critical material.
  • Pasifika Poetry
    Celebrating poetry from the Pacific region (New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre ).
  • Poetry 180
    A poem for each day of the school year, selected by United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins with high school students in mind. The site also contains advice on how to read a poem aloud.
  • Poetry Archive
    The Poetry Archive is a treasure trove of (mainly British) poets reading their own work from Tennyson at the end of the ninetheenth century, through poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Langston Hughes in the middle of the twentieth century, to contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney, Ruth Padel, and Kathleen Jamie.
  • Poetry Class
    A site dedicated to the teaching of poetry, which contains a number of practical and creative lessons designed to enhance students' appreciation. Lessons include: making the ordinary extraordinary; using songs to teach poetry; using figurative language and sound; using photographs to teach and stimulate poetry; personifying natural phenomena.
  • Poetry Concordances
    Students and teachers can access ideas in British romantic poetry by finding words interactively. Choose works by Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Hopkins. The workbook for each poem completes this twenty-first-century method of studying the greats.
  • Poetry Express
    A site dedicated to the writing of poetry, which includes guidance on "15 poems you can write now", along with advice on revising, sharing, and publishing poems.
  • Poetry Forge
    A site which encourages exploration through poetry. Of particular interest are downloadable tools that help students create metaphor poetry or found poetry.
  • Poets.org
    Biographical and literary information for more than 200 mainly American and British poets, including links to other web resources for each. The site also has forums and, most impressively of all, more than 70 poems read aloud by their authors.
  • Sonnet Central
    An archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors.
  • Trout
    Trout is intended to provide a forum for poetry, prose, reviews, interviews, and artwork of or about New Zealand and Pacific Island writers and artists. It is intended to encourage writers and artists, but hopefully will also promote interest in this broad and vital subject area to a worldwide audience.
  • Turbine
    A literary journal of new New Zealand writing published by Victoria University School of Modern Letters.
  • Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
    A site that provides virtual seminars on the literature of World War 1, including war poetry, the Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Library, material on the play, The Ghosts May Laugh, and links to other resources.
  • War Poetry Online
    War poetry by Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen.

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