{"id":124,"date":"2009-09-18T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-09-18T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T11:44:16","slug":"what-is-childrens-poetry-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/what-is-childrens-poetry-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Children&#8217;s Poetry For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"pp\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pp.png?resize=101%2C109\" width=\"101\" height=\"109\" \/>The title of the <a title=\"Phillipa Pearce Memorial Lecture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pearcelecture.com\/lectures\/2009\">2009 Phillipa Pearce Memorial Lecture<\/a>, given by Michael Rosen and introduced by Morag Styles. The lecture was presented to a packed audience at <a title=\"Homerton College Cambridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homerton.cam.ac.uk\/\">Homerton College <\/a> in Cambridge on 10th September.<\/p>\n<p>As always <a title=\"Michael Rosen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrosen.co.uk\">Michael Rosen <\/a> is great to listen to, a captivating speaker and lots of information. These notes highlight some of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry can be seen as a speaking picture. It helps meaning to become clear without us knowing how. It provides insight into emotions. It is memorable and enters our value judgement. It encapsulates wisdom with action. It brings together ideas and feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry exists more like the mortar than the bricks. It is the glue in between.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"mr\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mr.png?resize=101%2C113\" width=\"101\" height=\"113\" \/>Michael presented much of the talk based on work by Sir Phillip Sidney, 1595 <a title=\"An Apoogy for Poetry\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Sidney\">'An Apologie for Poetry'<\/a>,or rather defence of poetry. Even then he was defending the way poetry was associated with playing and jesting.<\/p>\n<p>But for <a title=\"National Poetry Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/childrensarchive\/home.do\">children and poetry<\/a>, it is no wonder they go together so well. Rhyme, verse, patterns, what better way to learn from the start about words and meaning. It's about playing with words, hearing words when you don't know the meaning, putting them in context.<\/p>\n<p>And making sense of what you hear- children do it all the time!<\/p>\n<p>Keep visiting <a title=\"Dolphin Booksellers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/\">Dolphin Booksellers<\/a>, we are going to be adding more information this autumn.<\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of the 2009 Phillipa Pearce Memorial Lecture, given by Michael Rosen and introduced by Morag Styles. The lecture was presented to a packed audience at Homerton College in Cambridge on 10th September. As always Michael Rosen is great to listen to, a captivating speaker and lots of information. These notes highlight some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/what-is-childrens-poetry-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"What is Children&#8217;s Poetry For?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,78,60,77,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-dolphin-booksellers","8":"tag-homerton-college","9":"tag-michael-rosen","10":"tag-phillipa-pearce","11":"tag-poetry","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry","14":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}