SuitabookOn Poetry Street
Brian Moses
- Reading
- Read one or two poems at a time, aloud where the rhythm invites it. Pause to notice a surprising word or image, then offer the child a choice: imitate the pattern, change it or invent something entirely different.
- Themes
- Poetry as experimentation: The collection invites readers to notice words, sounds and rhythms, then use poems as springboards for writing their own. Poetry is presented as open, accessible and available for personal twists, rather than as something restricted to complex subjects or fixed forms.
- The poetic potential of everyday life: Examples draw on boredom, waiting and days when things go wrong, turning familiar moments into poetic material. Ordinary experiences are treated as legitimate starting points for imaginative expression, with room for an individual twist.
- Humour and visual interpretation: Black-and-white illustrations accompany every spread, and the described poems and images include comic animals, children, dragons and other playful figures. The visual and verbal presentation appears to use humour as an inviting route into poetry, while illustrations can offer another interpretation of the ideas.
- Worth knowing
- The poems include feelings and situations such as boredom, frustration and waiting, alongside comic figures and animals. Their full emotional range and treatment cannot be established from the available details.