Go to YouTube to watch Imelda May recite this poem. ❍ Remind yourself of the features of spoken word poetry.
❍ For each one, try to identify an example from this spoken word poem.
You might also like to look up Gil Scott-Heron and Kae Tempest to see performances by these spoken word poets.
Poet Profi le
Name: Wendy Cope (b. 1945) Nationality: English
Fact: Wendy Cope has writ en many diff erent types of poems for children and adults: haiku poems, limericks, light-hearted comic poems and more serious poems. She was awarded an OBE (Offi cer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2010.
‘Tich Miller’ BY WENDY COPE
The poet writes this poem in a
conversational style, like she is telling a story. This is an example of a narrative poem.
Tich Miller wore glasses with elastoplast-pink frames and had one foot three sizes larger than the other.
When they picked teams for outdoor games she and I were always the last two left standing by the wire-mesh fence.