Poetry quotes

Question 1

War photographer

Answer 1

“Finally alone”
“Running children in a nightmare heat”
“Half-formed ghost”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”
“Rural England”
“He stares impassively”

Question 2

Originally

Answer 2

“All childhood is an emigration”
“My toungue shedding its skin like a snake”
“Bawling”
“Your accent wrong”

Question 3

Valentine

Answer 3

“Cling to your knife”
“Lethal”
“Possesive and faithful”
“It promises light”

Question 4

In Mrs Tilscher’s class

Answer 4

“Stared at your parents, appalled,”
“Inky tadpoles changed from commas to exclamation marks”
“Sky split open into a thunderstorm”
“Impatient to be grown”

Question 5

The way my mother speaks quotes

Answer 5

“Browsing for the right sky”

“too blue swapped for a cool grey”

“what like is it”

“homesick, free, in love”

Question 6

Mrs Midas

Answer 6

“Face was strange, wild, vain”
“Spitting out teeth of the rich”
“I poured with a shaking hand”
“Near petrified”