In this guest blog post, Neil Bowen, Head of English at Wells Cathedral School in the UK, ponders the role of modern poetry in education During my degree course, 25 years ago, the gamut of English Literature ran all the way back to Anglo-Saxon texts, such as Beowulf, and all […]
Tag: Poems of the Decade
A Short Analysis of Simon Armitage’s ‘Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass’
Dr Oliver Tearle analyses a fine poem about masculinity, nature, and much else The contemporary British poet Simon Armitage allowed his poem ‘Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass’ to be published online on the Oxford Today site, so we hope he wouldn’t mind our offering a few words about this poem, by […]