Title: Thinking Through Form
Subtitle: Preparing to Teach Poetry in School
Description: The editor describes it as "concerned with the possibilities for poetry in teacher education". Connects the nature of language with the nature of poetry. Emphasizes a "symbiosis between listeners, readers, tellers, and composers of poetic texts." Describes the development of "intertextuality within the company of others ... The approach outlined and the suggestions for classroom activities described are suitable for a wide variety of learners from primary school pupils of all ages to students on initial teacher education courses." This chapter grew from one of the papers presented to the Symposium on the Teaching of Poetry, at School of Education, University of Durham in 1995.