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Humour, Ageing, Art, Belonging, Birth, Body, Books and Reading, Celebration, Childhood, Christmas, City life, Comment, Conflict, Death, Digital World, Family, Fantasy, Fathers, Fathers' Day, Food, Friendship, Grief, Growing up, Guilt, Language, Home, Identity, Illness, International Women's Day, Imagination, Interview, Loss, Love, Marriage, Memories, Migration, Mothers, Mothering Sunday, Music, Nature, Natural World, Online World, Peace, Place, Poems about Paintings, Poems by Young People, Poems with Film or Animation, Poetry, Poverty, Protest, Rap and Slam, Politics, Race, Racism, Rebellion, Relationships, Revenge, School, Seasons, Sex, Shakespeare's birthday, Sport, States of Mind, St David's Day, The past, Tradition, Valentine's Day, Violence, War, Water, Wealth, Work, World Book Day, Youth, YouTube Selection,
Praise Song For My Mother by 
In this BBC film Grace Nichols’ reads her own poem celebrating the relationship between mother and child.
The EMC’s Exploring Poetry – Skills for the AQA Anthology: Character & Voice And Relationships provides resources (book and 2 DVDs) to support the teaching of the AQA GCSE poetry anthology.
Length: 1.17m Topics: Childhood, International Women's Day, Love, Mothers, Mothering Sunday,
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