7AP English Poetry Workshop Term 1

Hello everyone! We are writing from class 7C3 and welcome to the newsletter. It’s been a fantastic week of school. We are here to tell you about the poetry workshop!!! A poet named Sas came to our school to teach us about poetry. Sas taught us about different types of poetry devices. It was really fun as we learned a bunch of new things about poetry. We even wrote poetry ourselves and did really well!

On Tuesday, the 3rd of March, we participated in a poetry workshop during a double English library session. Sas Hall, creator of her original poem ‘Yakoa bridge’, instructed us to use uncommon things to create a unique poem describing a scene.

‘Sas inspired us to write our own poems using things that don’t normally fit together. For example, “a pair of vovo galahs”, which is a pinkish-brown coloured biscuit, to describe the shade of the birds’, said one student who wishes to remain anonymous.

Some poems written by our classmates in 7C3:

I dunno

I enter the restaurant,

smelling spices and fumes.

I sit on the chair and sink into the soft cushion.

See the chef cooking my butter chicken,

I take a sniff

and smell samosas and butter chicken.

- By Eli Torkington

Yakoa Bridge

Flower Garden

The crunch of a tasty apple fills my ears Yakoa Bridge

As I jump into a horizon of dawn-coloured leaves

Bees buzz their miniature fairy wings

Searching for fairy dust in the centre of a

Castle protruding from a looming green tower.

A picnic in the blades of grass

A tasty biscuit to munch.

Such is the beauty of this place where I am,

In a space where flora and fauna love to cram.

- By Farrah Li

Butter Butter Butter Buttery Chicken

I sit in an exclusive toilet type chair

a waiter comes by

And I smell a garbage load of spices

I ordered the lava hot butter chicken with naan.

MMM it tastes like creamy cooked chicken.

— By Ajitesh Jinka

By 7C3: Eli, Harvey, Cheng, Kate, Farrah, Inaaya, Ajitesh, Jenson, Ollie, and Raghav