English Tutor Bolton, Bury and Manchester: The Face in the Wall- Climbing Tiles.
The tiny red hand lifted the bottom blind and watched the boy trying to pick up a worm on the path. He looked happy for once and the hand let go of the wooden blind and started to climb the kitchen tiles. This was just a practice. Sometimes when you were new the bits didn’t [...]
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Andrew Forster’s Brothers : An Analysis Revisited.
Last Saturday I taught this poem and found lots more to say as I realised I had missed so much before. Surely that is the secret of a good poem? It has to give you more than you expected or gives you far more when your return; like blinking and then noticing all sorts of exotic creatures out [...]
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English Tutor/tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: The Face in the Wall and the sand.
It burnt him. Stung at his open eyes. And even if he found he could blink away the sharp grains, the room still looked odd, far away. He felt tired of the effort of being watchful and now the edges of everything hurt him. He blinked again. What was sand, what was dust? He felt [...]
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Join Phoenix Writers in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester!
Phoenix Writers – a short introduction The Phoenix Writers’ Group has been running since Easter 2008 in its current home at the Horwich Resource Centre on Beaumont Road. Before that, the group met in a variety of venues, including its original starting point the Thyme Café in Horwich. The group has maintained a weekly meeting [...]
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Vernon Scannell’s ‘Nettles’: An Analysis of the AQA poem.
Nettles by Vernon Scannell My son aged three fell in the nettle bed. ‘Bed’ seemed a curious name for those green spears, That regiment of spite behind the shed: It was no place for rest. With sobs and tears The boy came seeking comfort and I saw White blisters beaded on his tender skin. We soothed [...]
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Andrew Forster’s ‘Brothers’: An Analysis- how casual is betrayal?
Saddled with you for the afternoon,me and Paul ambled across the threadbare field to the bus stop, talking over Sheffield Wednesday’s chances in the cup while you skipped beside us in your ridiculous tank top, spouting six year-old views on Rotherham United Suddenly you froze,said you hadn’t any bus fare. I sighed,said you should go [...]
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English tutor/tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: The Face in the wall remembers George.
Someone famous had once turned their face to the wall and died because they had run out of the words they cared about. The face couldn’t recall who they were and perhaps they hadn’t remembered either. When words turn your heart to dust, your who or why crumbles too. He wondered if they had smelt the deep coldness of [...]
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Simon Armitage’s ‘The Manhunt’: An Analysis-intimacy as painful awe?
After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days, only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face, only then would he let me explore the blown hinge of his lower jaw, and handle and hold the damaged, porcelain collar-bone, and mind and attend the fractured rudder of [...]
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Simon Armitage’s ‘Harmonium’: An Analysis-the scent of lost time?
The Farrand Chapelette was gathering dust in the shadowy porch of Marsden Church. And was due to be bundled off to the skip. Or was mine, for a song, if I wanted it. Sunlight, through stained glass, which day to day could beatify saints and raise the dead, had aged the harmonium’s softwood case and [...]
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English Tutor Manchester Bolton and Bury: The Face in The Wall-The Sturridges.
It was late July. Summer Sturridge was watching her brother, Stephen, eat an ice cream for the first time in nearly ten years. Aside from their surname and the fact that their father had an alliterative ear, they had nothing in common except ice cream . Ice cream joined them together at all the best and worst moments of [...]
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