Session 1: being heard

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(clockwise) Joe Coelho, Pat Parker, Walt Whitman, Elsa Wiezell, Grace Nichols, Sarah Crossan, Oscar Wilde, Martin Niemöller, Rachel Rooney

Part of the Words That Burn poetry education series for secondary and further education students.

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Downloads: Session plan & resource sheets - Session 1: being heard; Powerpoint - Session 1: being heard; Poem - Encounter with freedom By Elsa Wiezell; Poem - Gingerbread man by Joseph Coelho; Poem - Sally size zero by Grace Nichols; Poem - Russian doll by Rachel Rooney; Poem - First they came by Martin Niemoller; Poem - My lover is a woman by Pat Parker; Poem - Cutbacks by Sarah Crossan; Poem- Song of myself by Walt Whitman; Poem - Apologia by Oscar Wilde

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