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They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. UK English also has the informal phrasal verb mug up, which means the same: I need to mug up on conservation policy before the interview.This deeply personal and supportive series offers listeners an honest and relatable insight into how some the UK's best-known celebrities have coped with mental health difficulties, ranging from OCD to insomnia, addiction to grief, and depression to anxiety. I make this sound so trite, a sappy version of "live laugh love" but honestly, it's contains multitudes. I particularly appreciate the emphasis on work as play and play as work, on absorbing as many disparate references as you can and combining them in new ways, and most especially on the idea that if you address yourself to process, you're eventually going to come up with something useful. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil”; Seamus ­Heaney’s “big soft buffetings come at the car sideways / And catch the heart off guard and blow it open”; and ­Larkin’s “Yet still the unresting castles thresh / In fullgrown thickness every May. Behind the listing of ways to work creatively with different media , there is evidence of a philosophy of love and hope that colours every offering the book has to give.

A very small number of older people will shudder and remember being punished for faulty memorisation of a poem assigned to the class to learn. Once we’ve memorized a poem, it becomes lodged in our long-term memory, which frees up our working memory to reflect more deeply on its meaning and significance. a technical point that helps us defend a position that is important for us, our family, or our community. This is a good book, and differently formatted from your average creative-inspiration book, full of photographs and illustrations from the Kent's own work.Tony Wagner has written an irresistible coming-of-age memoir that is an extended reverie on education—what it is, what it’s not, and why it matters. Munir stated that he felt positive about how he had answered the questions and felt that the interviewer had really listened to what he was saying. Fighting this attainment gap, and barriers to education access globally are two things I feel very passionately about, and it made sense to me to bring them together and create something to advocate education for all. In Poetry By Heart children choosing to learn a poem with others usually think they’re taking the easier option.

If you’d also like to explore writing poems with children, do check out the Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho’s Poetry Prompts.Pupils who succeed in learning and performing a poem by heart, however short, feel an incredible sense of achievement. This is followed by eight interviews of men and women, some of whom worked in the Mill from between the World Wars until it closed in 1970.