5. Leaving innocence. Carol Ann Duffy and Seamus Heaney under the spotlight.

from Waterskiing on Poetry - Waving hello to poems and poets with Neil Elder · host Neil Elder

Leaving school and getting out into the big wide world - exciting or terrifying? Let's see what Carol Ann Duffy says in her poem 'In Mrs Tilscher's Class' and also what Seamus Heaney has to say in 'Death of a Naturalist', two terrific poems that might make us long for the past when life seemed a little easier.I'm on Instagram at WaterskiingonPoetryhttps://www.instagram.com/waterskiingonpoetry?igsh=MXVhcnJ5MXI0aTNiNg==

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