Subject guides: Children's and Young Adult Literature (Education): Poetry & Drama

Drama Resources in the Library

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Drama Resources on the Web

Plays in the Curriculum Collection

Class Acts 1 by Mathew Clausen; Andrea Hayes
ISBN: 0864628080
Publication Date: 2002
For secondary school students.
Class Acts 1: Plays for Fun and Class Acts 2: Plays for Fun provide high-interest and humorous collections of short play scripts for medium to large casts that incorporate a range of theatrical styles of performance.
Drama 7-11 by Neil Kitson; Ian Spiby
ISBN: 1134767455
Publication Date: 2002
Drama and Traditional Story for the Early Years by Nigel Toye; Francis Prendiville; Jonothan Neelands (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780415195362
Publication Date: 2000
Using tried and tested example dramas based on traditional stories, the authors show how clearly dramas are constructed. They move from the simple use if TiR (Teacher in Role) to more complex, full dramas, using traditional stories including Little Bo Peep, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Humpty Dumpty, The Pied Piper, The Billy Goats Gruff and Hansel and Gretel.
Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre by John Rainer; Martin Lewis
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780415665292
Publication Date: 2012
An an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom.
50 Best Plays for Young Audiences by Vicky Ireland; Paul Harman
ISBN: 9781910798997
Publication Date: 2017
Includes a detailed listing of fifty plays by English playwrights chosen by their contemporaries, which have most influenced those working professionally to make theatre for young audiences.

Just Shakespeare

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Poetry: featured book

Blakwork by Whittaker, Alison
Call Number: Curriculum General A 821.4 W6241 1
Publication Date: 2018
Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet, life writer and essayist from Gunnedah and Tamworth, north-western New South Wales. She writes a stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry.

Speeches

Speakola: all speeches great and small
Created by Melbourne author and speaker Tony Wilson in August 2016, Speakola, collects speeches of all types, famous and not famous. For each speech, we attempt to include speaker name, event, location, date, a still photo for thumbnail, transcript, and if it exists, a video embed.
TED Talks
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.

Selected poetry books from the library's collections

Poetry by Heart by Mike Dixon (Contribution by); Julie Blake (Editor); Andrew Motion (Editor); Jean Sprackland (Editor)
ISBN: 9780241185544
Publication Date: 2014
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart 'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. Mike Dixon is an educational consultant specialising in English in the classroom.
The ABC Book Of Australian Poetry A treasury of poems for young people by Libby Hathorn
ISBN: 9780733320194
Publication Date: 2010
In this beautiful collection of poems, award-winning author and poet, Libby Hathorn, has brought together favourites such as those by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Dorothea Mackellar and C.J. Dennis, as well as more contemporary poems by Steven Herrick, Eva Johnson, Les A. Murray and others.
A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz
Call Number: Fisher 808.81 240
ISBN: 9780156005746
Publication Date: 1998
A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz
Poetry unlocked : developing skills for reading and understanding poetry by Elaine Hamilton
ISBN: 9780975199688
Publication Date: 2006
Developing skills for reading and understanding poetry
Poetry Unlocked An Anthology Arranged in Themes by Elaine Hamilton
ISBN: 9780975199695
Publication Date: 2006
Poetry Reloaded A Practical Guide for Senior Students by Blair Mahoney
Publication Date: 2009
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You by John Ciardi; Edward Gorey (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fisher 811.52 C566 1
ISBN: 9780064460606
Publication Date: 1987
Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . .
Love That Dog by Creech
Call Number: 1 copy Fisher 811.54 C9132 1
ISBN: 9780747557494
Publication Date: 2001

Digital poetry & visual poetry

Secrettechnology
Examples of complex and cutting edge digital poetry
Subatomic and particle poetry
Digital poems with a dry and amusing introduction by Peter Howard
Anipoems - Vispo
Typoems and Anipoems, animated visual poetry by Ana Maria Uribe.
Big numbers: the poetry of Pi-o
PiO's collection Big Numbers spans over 30 years of work from the migrant speak on the streets in the 70s to the symbols and vernacular of contemporary Australia.
Online tools and apps for poetry
Lisa Fink NCTE 2016
Twittermagnets
Drag words onto the grid and post to twitter.
Bluesuburbia (Requires Flash Player to view)
Dark and dramatic words to explore by Nathalie Lawhead

Finding Poetry Resources

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Poetry resources in the Curriculum Collection

Search for publications and resources for specific poets in Library collections, research databases and on the web.

For example search for information about Australian Poet Kevin Gilbert;

AustLit Database - Kevin Gilbert Austlit - The place to start for Australian literature research. References to Australian authors and their works, references to criticism, correspondence and interviews, as well as providing details and locations of theses dealing with Australian literature
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