Opening eyes is an inspiring poetry collection that covers broad-ranging themes, spans different cultures and centuries, and includes a wide range of poetic styles, employed by both celebrated and lesser-known poets. The poems are arranged in five themed sections, including Opening eyes (exploring sight and the way we see things), and Ebb and flow (listening to the rhythms of the sea, of history and of life itself). The collection includes poems by William Blake, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, A.E. Housman, Philip Larkin, Jean Sprackland and Benjamin Zephaniah.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 190 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. Opening Eyes: On my Short-Sightedness, Prem Chaya; The Blind Man at the Fair, Joseph Campbell; The Blind Boy, Colley Cibber; First Sight, Philip Larkin; Hares at Play, John Clare; Kob Antelope, Anon (translation by Ulli Beier); Mountain Lion, D. H. Lawrence; Red Kites Rising, Philip Goss; The Fly, William Blake; Acts of God, Catherine Phil MacCarthy; Mawu of the Waters, Abena P. A. Busia; The Ferryboat and the Traveller, Han Yong-Un; The Fridge, Boris Slutsky (translated by Elaine Feinstein); The Inside of Things, Brian Patten; The Seed Shop, Muriel Stuart; Gunpowder Plot, Vernon Scannell; They, Siegfried Sassoon; Activities; 2. You and me: One, James Berry; Friendship, Cole Porter; Friendship, Elizabeth Jennings; Heroes, Benjamin Zephaniah; These I Have Loved, Rupert Brooke; Unburgulars, Philip Gross; Boy at the Window, Richard Wilbur; Footings, Colette Bryce; Purge, Sheila Glen Bishop; Sewing Fingertips, Jean Sprackland; Shocks, Jean Sprackland; Tell your Mother I Saved Your Life, Jean Sprackland; Smothering Sunday, John Hegley; Bringing up a Single Parent, Brian Patten; In the Playground, Michael Rosen; Conkers, Grace Nichols; The Shout, Simon Armitage; The Apple-raid, Vernon Scannell; Geography Lesson, Brian Patten; Mid-Term Break, Seamus Heaney; Night Mail, W. H. Auden; Activities; 3. Out of doors: The Door, Miroslav Holub; Our Pond, Daniel Pettiward; My Neighbour's Rabbit, Brian Patten; My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear, Charles Causley; Hedgehog, Anthony Thwaite; Python, traditional; The Tomcat, Don Marquis; The Fox, Phoebe Hesketh; An Old Woman of the Roads, Padraic Colum; Meg Merrilies, John Keats; The Song of Wandering Aengus, W. B. Yeats; Caravan, Jean Sprackland; The Bicycle, Derek Mahon; The Wind Park, Gillian Clarke; The Fog, F. R. McCreary; Mist, Douglas Gibson; Trees in the Storm, Brian Patten; Feeding out-wintering cattle at twilight, Ted Hughes; Activities; 4. Ebb and flow: The Sea, James Reeves; Sea Fever, John Masefield; Thoughts like an Ocean, Gareth Owen; Evidence, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain; Tree Stump, Moya Cannon; The Cherry Trees, Laurence Binyon; Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now, A. E. Housman; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost; The Way through the Woods, Rudyard Kipling; In Time of "The Breaking of Nations", Thomas Hardy; Uffington, John Betjeman; Dumbshow, John Montague; Lucy Gray; or, Solitude, William Wordsworth; In the Attic, Andrew Motion; Drummer Hodge, Thomas Hardy; High Flight, John Gillespie Magee; 2000 A. D. , Rabindranath Tagore; Activities; 5. Digging deeper: There are Days, John Montague; Five O'Clock Shadow, John Betjeman; Guardians, John Montague; A Dream, Dermot Healy; House on a Cliff, Louis MacNeice; In a Non-sleeper, Boris Slutsky (translated by Elaine Feinstein; Missing the Troop Train, Yevgeny Vinokurov; O What is That Sound, W. H. Auden; Stanley meets Mutesa, David Rubadiri; Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley; Call to a Simple Feast, Sue Minish; Charms, Catherine Phil MacCarthy; The Hollow Wood, Edward Thomas; Watching for Dolphins, David Constantine; The Donkey, G. K. Chesterton; The Tyger, William Blake; Activities; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements.