My Salt reading list
“An essential reading list for boys aged 14-18.”
Robert Sheppard Complete Twentieth Century Blues
Luke Kennard The Harbour Beyond the Movie
What will you get out of these books?
“Because teachers don’t have the time to hunt around for what will inspire their pupils, one by one, this list has a bit of everything in it, but most of all, a lot of edge. These books promise to show you what you didn’t believe poetry was capable of doing, after sitting through hours of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. These writers show poetry can be hot and dangerous, ridiculous, funny, angry, chilled out and blissful; anything you want it to be. And they’ll put all those dead poets in perspective.”
Biography
George Ttoouli is Education Projects Coordinator for the Poetry Society, where he coordinates the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and an Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Warwick Writing Programme. He’s also a freelance writer and editor. He likes grumbling about the fact that young people don’t know just how exciting poetry can be because they don’t know where to find it any more. He still has his copy of Brian Patten’s Gargling with Jelly, from when he was eight.
My Books
- Heaventree New Poets Volume 1, with Zoe Brigley and Michael McKimm, ISBN: 9780954531768
Find out more about me
http://gistsandpiths.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/ttooulig/
The hat returns!