Poems

Book club party games 2

Poems by LoisDecember 14, 2012December 14, 2012

Book club party games

Poems by LoisDecember 13, 2012December 13, 2012

In Praise of Limestone 2

Poems by LoisDecember 10, 2012September 24, 2013

Poems by LoisDecember 9, 2012

Simon Armitage is a local lad, well, local to us when we lived in the north of England.He comes from across the Pennine Hills In Lancashire (the people of those hills, by the way had their own ancient language until well after the Norman Conquest) Simon was born in Marsden, a pretty little town in Yorkshire, in 1963 and was a probation officer. […]

Nanas De La Cebolla

Poems by LoisDecember 8, 2012December 8, 2012

Poems by LoisDecember 4, 2012December 4, 2012

A not scary poem!

I tried to teach a variety of poems to my students, including this one which has some wonderfully wacky and funny descriptions, and yet so perfectly describes an icy city. I first went to Paris when I was thirteen, to stay with some family friends who had a flat there. it was not a wholly enjoyable experience, they had a young child and a nurse-maid […]