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SWITCH Teaching Resource 2: Vanishing Acts – Connecting Climate Change and People

A second teaching resource engaging young poets with climate change – conceived by Helen Mort, and developed through Cape Farewell and the Poetry Society‘s SWITCH project.... More ›

SWITCH Teaching Resource 1: Tackling Climate Change

Check out the first teaching resource that was developed through Cape Farewell and the Poetry Society‘s SWITCH project, and which can be used to get young... More ›

A tough choice: the runners-up

The decision on who is going to win was a difficult one there were quite a few excellent submissions. Well done to all! The runners-up for... More ›

Challenge winner: Jake Reynolds

Challenge 4

The final challenge was to write a poem that contained the things you would put in a box to represent humanity if aliens landed in the... More ›

Challenge winner: Serena Cooke

Challenge 3

Challenge three was to write a collage poem that explores the causes and effects of climate change, using information gathered from notebooks and freewrites responding to... More ›

Challenge winner: Mary Anne Clark

Challenge 2

The prompt for the second challenge was to write a poem in the voice of an animal that has to leave its home. Mary Anne Clark... More ›

Challenge winner: Jamie Uy

Challenge 1

The winner of the first challenge is Jamie Uy, a very promising young poet. The challenge was to take on the theme of consumerism responding to... More ›

Challenge 4

Artwork by John Cuming and Cecil Tait “Imagine a wooden box so small as to be manageable in a ship with almost no private space. Inside... More ›

Challenge 3

Experiments in the Jungle ...

Madre de Dios, Peru, July 2009. Manu Learning Center. Andes Expedition, Cape Farewell. Photo by Ana Cecilia Gonzales-Vigil The theme for this week is cause and... More ›