This week, we’ve been reading a poem called ‘Photograph’ by Roger Stevens.
Roger Stevens is a well-known British poet, author, and musician who has written extensively for children. He has published dozens of poetry collections, both as a solo writer and as an editor of anthologies that bring together poems from a range of voices.
Today, we performed the poem in groups! Here are the R2s:
– tone / emphasis
– vary the pace
– vary the volume
Here’s the photo I took
Last year on the beach
Dad, wearing the tie
I bought him for his birthday
Billy drinking lemonade
The straw up his nose
And Mum, huddled up in her coat
Against the seaside windNow Dad’s in France
And our beach is covered in concrete
And tangled barbed wire
And land mines
In case the Germans invadeBut on that day
We’d just made
The world’s grandest sandcastle
And watched the tide
Rush in
Filling the moat
Gradually washing
The sandcastle away
