Introduction Part I: Poetry and Science
1. Observing the Human Body
2. Fruit and Other Natural Things
3. Bicycles and Other Machines
4. Cats and Other Animals Footnote: some haikus and some riddles Prose Interlude: Children and their Names Part II: Poetry and Personal, Social and Moral Education
5. Me and the Rest of the World
6. Lists Part III: Putting Art in Prison to Set it Free
7. Pattern
8. Using Visual Images
9. Art and Multicultural Education
10. Poetry for Its Own Sake Prose Interlude: Stories and Beginning a Novel
11. 'So help me God': Poetry and Religious Education Appendices Bringing Living Writers into the Classroom Learning by Heart