Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing by Pooky Knightsmith

Author:Pooky Knightsmith [Knightsmith, Pooky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784503239
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2016-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

Extension activities

•The poem ends with the words ‘Scars don’t change | Who you are’ – how does this relate to people’s perceptions of you – how might the perceptions of different people change depending on whether or not you have scars?

•Create a piece of poetry, prose or art that represents how the boy in the poem is feeling.

•Take four lines of this poem that especially resonate and write your own poem which incorporates them.

Suicide

By His Own Hand

How could you?

They asked you,

How could you?

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