our students only one kind of poetry to read, a kind the immediately recognise, it would be like taking someone to a palace, parking them at the door and telling them to go no further." He urged primary schools to offer a broader range of poetry than just children's writers like Spike Milligan and Roald Dahl, suggesting they used some of Ted Hughes' animal poems or Emily Dickinson's "Snow".
In secondary schools, they could tackle complex writers like Geoffrey Hill and Don Patterson.
from The Independent: Andrew Motion calls for poetry teaching to be broadened
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