School Milk by Claudia Court
In this collection Claudia Court remembers her education at two very different convent schools in the 1960's, first as a 'Pint-sized' little girl and then as a 'Full cream' boarder.
In twenty short, incisive poems, (written in triadic couplets, a new form invented by the poet Colin Pink) Claudia narrates some key episodes of the schooldays she experienced first as an innocent five-to-eleven-year old, and then as a teenager. Many of these poems had her editor howling with laughter!
Claudia has a very English gift for understatement and 'turns a poem on a sixpence', often on its last line, so that we burst out laughing with surprise at the absurdity or simply the truth that she reveals.
The laughter is never cruel — Claudia's observations are honest and direct, but always understanding and kind to her protagonists, aware and sensitive to their motivations, whether they're fellow pupils or the adults in charge of them. This is a book to treasure and re-read
In twenty short, incisive poems, (written in triadic couplets, a new form invented by the poet Colin Pink) Claudia narrates some key episodes of the schooldays she experienced first as an innocent five-to-eleven-year old, and then as a teenager. Many of these poems had her editor howling with laughter!
Claudia has a very English gift for understatement and 'turns a poem on a sixpence', often on its last line, so that we burst out laughing with surprise at the absurdity or simply the truth that she reveals.
The laughter is never cruel — Claudia's observations are honest and direct, but always understanding and kind to her protagonists, aware and sensitive to their motivations, whether they're fellow pupils or the adults in charge of them. This is a book to treasure and re-read
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