Description
The poems and stories in this book were written as part of a creative writing workshop held in Penang in June 2011. The fifty participants were all teachers from the MARA schools (MRSM) network from across Malaysia.
The purpose of the workshop was to introduce teachers to the practices of creative writing and to produce original stories and poems which might appeal to secondary school students in the Asia region.
Our aim in writing poems and stories was to offer accessible texts to the students which would appeal partly because of their local themes and subject matter. We also believe that poetry and fiction is an underused resource among students. Yet it is of great importance because it opens the way to a deeper appreciation of emotion and because of the way it is expressed vividly through words, and through the rhythms and cadences of the language.
