A Day at the Applecross Senior High School

It's always nice to have a break from your usual weekly routine, spending a day at the Applecross Senior High School. It was a great alternative and exceptional time. I spent two separate hours with Year 11 students (also separate classes) and we worked on some poetry, mainly looking at metaphor. The task was to write about their family, eg. mother, father, and possibly two siblings. I used a workshop written by Canadian poet Patrick Lane who has his own wonderful images. However, one young boy wrote a very funny line;- "my brother is a rash, and is always irritating."

Class teacher is Veronica Lake, who painstakingly every year publishes a book of poetry with prize winners from all submitted high schools. This year the first prize winner blitzed the prize with a great poem titled, Wholly in the Deep.

Copies of this anthology can be bought from me by telephoning 0404666156, or through the Applecross Senior High School, Western Australia.