Research undertaken by Mary Weaven and Tom Clark from Victoria University into poetry teaching, published in English in Education, signals that poetry, for a range of reasons, is not mainstream when it comes to the English classroom. Some might argue, so what? In an age of SMS messaging, social networking sites like Twitter and the fact that we are now an iconographic culture, it might seem studying poetry is obsolete and of little, if any, value. Nothing could be further from the truth. Memor…
