Family Poem Quotes

Question 1

Mother Any Distance - Simon Armitage

Answer 1

‘Zero end’
‘Anchor. Kite’
‘Space-walk’
‘Endless sky to fly or fall’

Question 2

Eden Rock - Charles Causley

Answer 2

‘Somewhere beyond Eden Rock’
‘Old H.P. sauce bottle’
‘Whiteness as if lit by three suns’

Question 3

‘Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy

Answer 3

‘Marilyn’
‘Relics’
‘Cha cha cha’

Question 4

Climbing My Grandfather - Andrew Waterhouse

Answer 4

‘Trying to get a grip’
‘Smooth and thick like warm ice’
‘Feeling his heat’
‘Slow pulse of his good heart’

Question 5

Letters From Yorkshire - Maura Dooley

Answer 5

‘His knuckles singing’
‘Pouring air and light into an envelope’
‘Our souls’

Question 6

Follower - Seamus Heaney

Answer 6

‘Like a full sail strung’
‘All I ever did was follow’
‘My father who kept stumbling’

Question 7

Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis

Answer 7

‘Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit’
‘Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’
‘The small, the scorching ordeals’
‘Love is proved in the letting go’