An eclectic collection of poems from the unique perspective of a poet
who has spent much of his life at the hard edge of education.
These poems reflect the emotions and experience of being a teacher as
well as the thoughts and feelings about everything that externally
impinges on the role of educators. While the collection will have broad
appeal to fellow practitioners, it will also resonate with anyone and
everyone who has attended school.
Mike Ferguson's poems about teaching and examining were written over a
30 year period as an English teacher, and over 35 years as an examiner
of English Literature at GCSE level. The eclecticism comes not only from
reflecting over a long period of time but, more pertinently, on a
varying focus of style and the experiences themselves.
Ferguson's most recent writing is almost exclusively 'experimental' in
vein. A small core of poems are sonnets. A number of poems air the
poet's political and critical views on education.
