{"id":528,"date":"2021-10-04T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2022-05-26T17:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:30:18","slug":"i-come-from","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"I Come From"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><span style=\"color: #00ffff\">We wrote the poems below after reading and discussing Robert Seatter\u2019s\u00a0 and Dean Atta\u2019s \u2018I Come From\u2019. These poems are about memories, growing up, celebrating joy and talking about our cultural identity. Where are you from?\u00a0<\/span><\/header>\n<div><span style=\"color: #00ffff\"><ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/i-come-from-the-christmas-cracker\/\">i come from the water and the waves<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Damien Jason<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/my-familys-voice\/\">My Family&#8217;s Voice<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Gojus<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/the-big-city\/\">The Big City<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;User deactivated<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/family\/\">Family<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Finlay Ruben<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/i-come-from-the-outdoors\/\">I Come From the Outdoors<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Eleanor<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/621-2\/\">The Crescent Moon<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Finlay<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/i-come-from\/\">Delicious Welsh Cakes<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Maisie<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/i-come-from-charismas-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/\">I Come From Christmas, the Most Wonderful Time of the Year<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Kayla Elizabeth<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/where-im-happiest\/\">Where I&#8217;m Happiest<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Agatha<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/dancing\/\">Dancing<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Paige Gillian<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/play-park\/\">Play Park<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Joel James<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/love\/\">LOVE<\/a> <span class=\"author\">by&nbsp;Alexander Robert Carr<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ffff\">Our teacher has written one too and we&#8217;d love to share some written by parents. Go on have a go! Click on the link below and read the poem a few times. You can try your own version using references to the sounds, sights and smells of your childhood. Write about what you remember. Write quickly, without thinking about it too much. Share them with us if you are brave.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/public\/poetryforall\/uploads\/sites\/7013\/2020\/11\/17114447\/I-Come-From-Robert-Seatter.pdf\">I Come From Robert Seatter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dean Atta performs &quot;I Come From&quot; | Fail Better 2020 | Poet in the City\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5fyRTUmy6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff\">We were inspired by the BBC clip below which features some school girls from Bradford. We are grateful to them for sharing their stories, it has helped us to share our own.\u00a0 Watch the clip, their words are strong and lyrical.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ffff\"><a style=\"color: #00ffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-47500026\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-47500026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\">Thank you to <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateClanchy1\">Kate Clanchy<\/a> for provided the lesson from her wonderful book: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/kate-clanchy\/how-to-grow-your-own-poem\/9781529024708\">How to Grow Your Own Poem<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote the poems below after reading and discussing Robert Seatter\u2019s\u00a0 and Dean Atta\u2019s \u2018I Come From\u2019. These poems are about memories, growing up, celebrating joy and talking about our cultural identity. Where are you from?\u00a0 Our teacher has written one too and we&#8217;d love to share some written by parents. Go on have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/i-come-from\/love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOVE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9922,"featured_media":1370,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-528","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/writemorepoems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}