Poetry in Action Performance: The Power of Poetry
Poetry in Action Performance: The Power of Poetry
Recently, our Year 8 students enjoyed a performance from spoken word poetry group Poetry In Action, called ‘The Power of Poetry’. The three performers enthusiastically and hilariously discussed, debated and brought to life a range of classic and contemporary poems. The poems included represented many different times, places and styles, from a sonnet by Elizabeth Robert Browning, to Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish’s The Prison Cell, to snippets from Banjo Patterson and Eminem.
The students were engaged and drawn into the story, all about mistaken identities and how poetry can help us express our innermost feelings. The hint at a possible romance between the performers particularly captured our SAC students’ interest! Overall this was a fun performance which should lead well into our further study of a range of poetry in Year 8 English classes.
Ms Amy Klar
English Teacher
