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Lighthouse of yonder rock that harkens into the oceanic arena, there is tell that you were born of starlight rather than built by hands of men. Yet I say to the storytellers of the deep that it is through the hands of men that the stars make heaven's way.

In the turret of that lighthouse bright, I placed my writers desk. I called the scene of those waves, the stormy and the calm, my home. Yet in truth it was only half a truth, for without you I am half a soul, at least I feel that way. So until you can fly over those bonny waves, here I sit, imagining that I am whole.

The lighthouse stood as a great guardian of land and a friend to those navigating sea waves.

The weathered paint of the lighthouse was evidence of its humble valour, how it stood resolute upon the rock to tell of dangers others couldn't see.

The lighthouse was bathed in rainwater and brine, the pure and the salty, season in and season out. Around it were the rocks both proud of the waves and submerged. It had been a long time since there were real steps to the door, ones that could be traversed with ease, and so they waited for the tide to pull the sea out a little further, to wait until all the rocks could breathe fresh coastal air.

Day or night, the lighthouse lit up my heart, for it was a thing of beauty, a poetry, a part of this coastal soul.

Starlight calls from the heavens, lighthouse glow replies from Earth, together lighting up the night.

There is a heartbeat in that lighthouse that gets converted to a steady beam upon the nightly reign of the moon.

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01 May 2021

Posted by Tabby Hayward

LIGHTHOUSE POETRY

11-14 group - 15 attending 15-18 group - 12 attending

This week, we were continuing with our theme of lighthouses, but looking at poetry about lighthouses...

To begin, we thought about personifying a lighthouse - personification is when you describe something which isn't human as if it  were  human, giving it qualities/characteristics/features which only a human would have. Looking again at our lighthouse pictures, the young writers picked one and asked themselves...

If this lighthouse were a person, what sort of a person would they be? How old would they be? What gender? What would they look like? What would they wear? What sort of personality would they have? Introverted or extroverted? Calm and peaceful or bad tempered?  How would they feel? Lonely? Bored? Contented? Frustrated? Joyful? What could they see? What could they hear?

Putting all this together, the young writers wrote a short poem/poetic description introducing their lighthouse character!

Here’s Annie’s ‘lighthouse person’ poem:

Glowing smile and bright eyes, Her hair as bright and yellow as that of a light, A small bucket hat sits upon her head, Hair swaying in the wind as she passes, A cotton dress comes down to her ankles, Whiter than snow itself, She wears a red belt across her waist, Red and white bracelet upon her wrist, Alone and desperate, Unable to move, She guides those on adventures but longs for an adventure herself, Soon enough her eyes begin to dull, The white dress stains, Her smile is no more.

And here’s Aurora’s description:

The giant sighed, feeling the holes in his old fleece splash like the waves of the never-ending sea. His knees dug deep into the soft rock beneath him, keeping his great body solid in the gales that often froze him near to death. His breaths were drawn heavily, as if they were being pulled by some great rope in a violent tug of war, groaning under the massive lantern that laid upon his cold back. Cold despite the huge flame that hissed and spat where he held it, warding off doomed ships and unfortunate sailors.                                                                                                       What happened to the days gone by? What happened to the children who would run up, red-faced from their play at school, carrying garlands of valley flowers and warm-knitted blankets to keep him on his age-old mission? Alas, they had long since grown up, and they now knew of the ancient crime that chains him to this blasted cliff. And so none would go near him, leaving his white-and-red jumper to rot on his heaving chest, only withered black stalks hung from his aching neck, no-one to comfort him.

The giant sighed, feeling the holes in his old fleece splash like the waves of the never-ending sea. His knees dug deep into the soft rock beneath him, keeping his great body solid in the gales that often froze him near to death. His breaths were drawn heavily, as if they were being pulled by some great rope in a violent tug of war, groaning under the massive lantern that laid upon his cold back. Cold despite the huge flame that hissed and spat where he held it, warding off doomed ships and unfortunate sailors.      

What happened to the days gone by? What happened to the children who would run up, red-faced from their play at school, carrying garlands of valley flowers and warm-knitted blankets to keep him on his age-old mission? Alas, they had long since grown up, and they now knew of the ancient crime that chains him to this blasted cliff. And so none would go near him, leaving his white-and-red jumper to rot on his heaving chest, only withered black stalks hung from his aching neck, no-one to comfort him. The giant wept when he though of this, creating cascading waterfalls that ate at the soft chalk rocks beneath his stained knees. The wind was his only companion, a sneering comrade indeed, that only whispered snidely before rushing off to annoy someone else.

Next, we looked at kennings – metaphorical compounds, dating back to Old English and Viking poetry, which are used as tiny riddles to describe things in unexpected ways! Some of our young writers were already familiar with kennings (especially those in the Afterschool Club, where we looked at them last week!) but we went through the page on kennings on the Young Poets Network together and the writers all came up with some really imaginative kennings for their lighthouses – including the ‘sun’s substitute’ and the ‘waves’ boxing bag’!

Next, we looked at some other examples of poems about lighthouses, from Lighthouse Keeping by Kay Ryan to Land’s End by Weldon Kees, The Inland Lighthouse by James McMichael, I Was Never Able to Pray by Edward Hirsch, and Letters from an Institution by Michael Ryan. Some of these were using lighthouses more as a symbol/metaphor, while others looked at the imagery surrounding lighthouses and seascapes, exploring ideas of memory, childhood, nature, the environment and loss. We also looked at the different ways in which the poems were set out on the page and their use of rhyme, rhythm and structure – some almost resembling lighthouses in their shape!

Finally, putting all this together, the young writers wrote their best lighthouse poems, which could use kennings, personification, metaphors, imagery, shape, and anything else we had looked at today – or any other techniques they wanted to explore!

Here is Annie's poem, using kennings, rhyme and personification!

A guide to thee who are lost in the dark, A bright light as if a spark, Standing tall and firm, A hero to all in a different term, Watching over the pool of the world, A white base with a red twirl, The candle tower is a sight for sure.

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Top 10 lighthouses in fiction

These lonely outposts provide stormy literary inspiration to writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Virginia Woolf and PD James

T hey warn of danger and yet lighthouses in fiction rarely seem to keep characters safe. Work in one and suffer loneliness or worse. Set foot in one in any capacity and immediately feel your options narrowing. There may be only one way in but there will be two ways out, one of which you don’t want to think about. They rise out of the land – and the sea – with the undeniable power of a symbol, a prophecy.

In 1998, a friend working in publishing asked me to read a novel that had recently been published in France, Pharricide by Vincent de Swarte , and write a report on it. I fell immediately and deeply in love with it and wrote in my report that not only should the UK publisher obtain the rights, but they should let me translate it. They didn’t obtain the rights and so I spent the next 20 years trying to find a publisher willing to take it on. Finally, I struck lucky with Confingo Publishing, my translation appearing earlier this year – too late for De Swarte, who sadly died in 2006 aged only 42.

Pharricide tells the story of amateur taxidermist Geoffroy Lefayen, who embarks on a six-month stint as solo lighthouse keeper at Cordouan off the French Atlantic coast. As he unpacks his knives, he prays that not a soul comes to the lighthouse during the time that he’s there.

Below are 10 similar landmark stories.

1. Pharos by Alice Thompson All of Scottish author Thompson’s novels feature details from surrealist paintings on their covers – by Ernst, Delvaux, Magritte, De Chirico and Conroy Maddox – apart from this one, her third, but it could easily have done. A ghost story about a haunted lighthouse and island, it has a dreamlike atmosphere similar to that in her later novel Burnt Island. Characters are always noticing other characters walking across the beach towards them, as if out of nowhere. Stephen King is a fan.

2. The Lighthouse by Alison Moore The key lighthouse in this Booker-shortlisted novel is a small silver case that once contained a phial of perfume owned by the main character’s mother. Futh carries the little silver lighthouse everywhere. Were it to be lost or stolen, one imagines, the consequences would be dire. There is another lighthouse, in Futh’s childhood, and there’s one on the cover, which appears black, but only because it is a negative image of a white lighthouse. The owner of a black lighthouse telephoned the publishers to express righteous anger that permission had not been sought to photograph her lighthouse. It fell to me, as the book’s editor, to call her back. I enjoyed making that call.

3. The Thing on the Shore by Tom Fletcher If a lighthouse is a symbol, it may be a phallic one, as Helen Dunmore concedes in her lovely Granta piece about Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Here, however, Whitehaven lighthouse – painted red and white with a green “eye” – is closely associated with the main character Arthur’s mother. A novel that reads as if HP Lovecraft had moved to West Cumbria in 2011.

4. The Lighthouse by Agnes Owens In this short story, a beach is full of threats and dangers. Megan wants to go to the lighthouse, but her younger brother Bobby does not. She warns him that a monster might get him if he doesn’t comply. His understanding of “monster” is unusual and we worry about the man in the grey tracksuit, even the woman walking her dog. The absent parents may be neglectful. The man in the grey tracksuit says it’s not safe: they might get hit by a golf ball. Megan repeats part of the warning to Bobby before heading off. A pitiless story well told.

5. In the Cut by Susanna Moore There’s a little lighthouse in this New York-set thriller first published in 1995. We don’t see much of it, but it’s important. A creative writing teacher witnesses a sex act involving a woman who later winds up dead. On page four we read that “some of [her students] admitted that before completing the Virginia Woolf assignment they’d smoked a little dope and it had helped”. One of the best novels I’ve read in years – and about to be reissued .

6. The Wreck of the Aurora by Patrick McGrath In this vivid and powerful short story, first published in ST Joshi’s anthology A Mountain Walked, the building of a lighthouse on a “hunk of basalt” protruding from the Pacific Ocean is described in terms that remind one of the construction of a pyramid. This lighthouse will become synonymous with death when one night its keeper locks his companions in their rooms and turns off the power. Years later a woman visits the rock to try to understand why the keeper – her father – killed the light.

7. The Lighthouse by PD James James’s long-serving detective Adam Dalgliesh, making his 13th appearance, is a poet as well as a policeman. If poetry depends on concision and the avoidance of cliche, it’s a little ironic that he ends up in this long book alongside a character sporting “large hazel eyes” and “an aquiline nose”. There has been a death, possibly a murder, on an island off the Cornish coast where the prime minister is hoping to organise a meeting of minds. It’s hard to remain undistracted by the thought of one’s actual PM being helicoptered out to the same island and ideally staying there.

8. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse is partly about power and largely about portraying consciousness, but as a reading experience it can feel like an exercise in eternally delayed gratification. It has been acclaimed as a masterpiece since its appearance in 1927. But it’s not exactly long on action, and the young boy James is not the only one who wants to get to the sodding lighthouse. You start to wonder if Woolf will have the bottle actually to postpone arrival beyond the end of the novel. No spoilers here.

9. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer To the Lighthouse with guns. All the action Woolf left out ended up in this first part of VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, published in 2014. Four female scientists are transported into an abandoned landscape, Area X, where they face treachery and constant danger. A distant lighthouse represents the possibility of escape. Essentially the record of a really, really bad trip, this is much, much better than the film .

10. The Lighthouse by Edgar Allan Poe Soloing in a lighthouse designed to be looked after by three men, the purported writer of this brief account opens a logbook on the first day of January 1796 by confiding his wish to be alone. By day two he is in ecstasy. Could this fragment of an unfinished story, the diary of a lighthouse keeper, written in 1849 and now available online , have inspired Pharricide?

Pharricide by Vincent de Swarte (translated by Nicholas Royle) is published by Confingo .

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Hello Lighthouse by Sophia Blackwell

Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp’s wick, and writes every detail in his logbook.

Main Focus: Alphabetical Order

This activity explores Page 4 of the story and focuses on teaching your Year 1 / Year 2 class alphabetical order.

Your KS1 children will be challenged to order the words using the first and second letter (if required). There is also the option to allow your class to choose words of their own from the text.

Main Focus: Comprehension

Your class will complete this KS1 comprehension resource based on the whole story of Hello Lighthouse.

This resource has been differentiated to allow your class to tackle different types of questions based on the book.

Main Focus: Creative Writing

At the end of the story, the lighthouse keeper has moved out of the lighthouse as there is a new light and machine which means the keeper does not need to tend the lighthouse anymore.

Your class will think about what duties he had in the lighthouse and other skills you think he might be able to use in his new job.

This is a lovely creative writing resource that encourages your class to apply what they know about the lighthouse keeper.

Main Focus: Label a Lighthouse

This activity encourages your class to look at the lighthouse in depth and begin to recognise the different parts.

Main Focus: Phonics

This phonics resource covers: initial sounds, final sounds, vowel teams and also gives you class the opportunity to search and locate sounds that they recognise. 

Main Focus: Word Class

The resource helps your class identify nouns, verbs and adjectives within an extract of the text.

Main Focus: Punctuation

This resource helps your children identify where capital letters and full stops are located within an excerpt from the story.

The resource is differentiated to give you the option to start at different points with the children in your class.

Main Focus: Story Reflection

This is a great resource to use at the end of the book to encourage your class to reflect on the story and look a little deeper into making predictions, being creative, gathering evidence, sequencing, summarising and more.

Lighthouse: Animated Story

This is a story of a lighthouse keeper who feels somewhat isolated from the community until he needs their help. A heart-warming animated about being there for each other.

You can pause the story at multiple stages to ask the children to:

Discuss and create descriptions of the setting

Make Predictions

Discuss problems and solutions

Discuss feelings and reasoning

Create a dialogue, recount, newspaper report etc.

Life of a Lighthouse Technician

There are more than 250 lighthouses still in use across the UK, whose shining beams of light play a vital role in protecting shipping. With the days of the lighthouse keeper long gone, who looks after them?

When Scott Tacchi spotted an advertisement for a job as a lighthouse technician, he was intrigued enough to apply and then delighted to land the post.

The 30-year-old from Truro in Cornwall has spent the past 18 months helping to maintain the nation’s lighthouses, and documenting a job that often provides spectacular views.

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"It's the small things that count. The small beauties of the world that keep you going, keep you thriving. Look for the small things and you, too, will be beautiful."

Alice Pearson wrote these words on foam board, a piece of insulation on display in the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's temporary headquarters. It would eventually be carried across a parking lot, embedded in a construction project and, possibly, never seen again.

Lighthouse turned 25 years old in 2022, and the nonprofit is close to completing a major upgrade for their writing workshops and youth programs. Their new permanent headquarters, a brand new $8 million building on the edge of Denver's Clayton neighborhood, is set to open next year.

And as the work began, Donneve Rae, a member, floated an idea in the community. Wouldn't it be fun if they penned some of their own words onto the building's bones?

"I just thought that was absolutely delightful," Jefferson told us. "We are all just really thrilled by the idea of physically building a building out of words, even if it's just in that small way. The words are literally part of the building materials."

Pearson, a member of Lighthouse's Young Author's Collective, said it didn't matter the short sentiment would be sealed away behind drywall. To her, it was an opportunity to bless a space she's come to rely on, a small gesture for something that's become a big part of her life.

"It's like setting intentions," she said, "you know what I mean?"

"Even the little witch girl needs friends."

This was the passage Abby, who asked we don't use her last name, chose to write. For her, it was a reflection of what she's gotten from the Young Author's Collective, a musing on acceptance and friends found by chance.

"I didn't seek out these people, and then we all found each other through writing" she said as she sat with Pearson, Bruna Patton and Zoe Roberts during their weekly workshop. "We all get to enjoy these parts of ourselves and find people who will accept your, like, little witchiness."

The kids described themselves like the "Breakfast Club," not necessarily compatible in the real world but absolutely cohesive in this context. They're each between 13 and 15 and figuring themselves out, mostly on the page, in this "judgement-free zone."

The words Patton chose - "sometimes you need comfort, even if you get it from the worst places" - was an example of this self exploration. The passage wasn't so much about projecting an intention as it was an exercise in homing in on the kind of ominous prose she's been exploring in workshops.

This kind of safe place was a big goal in Lighthouse's expansion. Jefferson said the new building will offer, for the first time, a dedicated room for young people to come and write. Their goal is an open invitation to any kid in the neighborhood, not the few selected each year for the intensive Young Author's Collective program.

"We wanted to be in a place where kids can walk in after school and get tutoring help and, you know, 'I need somewhere to write my creative writing homework,'" she said. "We wanted to be somewhere that was really accessible to local schools, an area that really doesn't have a ton of arts access that we can help build up. That was really important to us."

"I think the meaning of life is to make a difference in the world in a way no one else can."

Those were the words Zoe Roberts penned on the foam panel, a mantra she tries to keep in her mind when things outside herself seem hectic or depressing.

It also embodies Lighthouse's broader goals, beyond just their youth programs.

During the pandemic, the nonprofit's footprint grew far beyond the metro. As they opened classes over zoom, they accumulated participants from all 50 states and a handful of other continents. They offered seminars for medical workers who needed a venue to blow off steam as their hospitals filled with COVID cases, an offshoot of older programs that used writing as therapy for people dealing with hardship.

Alexa Culshaw, the nonprofit's spokesperson, said this kind of community work is what sets Lighthouse apart from other organizations like them. Writing and words, she added, are perfect vehicles to create spaces where individual people and communities can grow stronger.

"We're guided by the belief that writing is a transformative act, and words are our most meaningful way of connecting with one another," she told us. "We see a real power and potential in creative writing, expressing your story, reading someone else's story, understanding new perspectives. It's just a powerful tool."

Three stories tall, packed full of books and adorned by the words of their students, Culshaw said their new home will finally match their ambition, reach and ethos.

"The new building means everything," Jefferson said. "It means growth. It means new access to community. It really means everything to the future of Lighthouse."

Correction: The genesis of the interior poetry idea was originally misstated by our sources, and has since been changed to reflect Donneve Rae's contribution.

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Taking a look at all of Lighthouse's programs and not sure where to start? You've found the right place. On this page, you'll get an overview of how Lighthouse classes work, when they're run, how to find the right one for you, and more!

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The word is all over our website—so what's a workshop, and what do these other terms mean? The word "workshop" refers to classes in which in-progress work is shared and writers are given written, formal critique and feedback from peers. It can seem intimidating on the surface, but learning from other writers is what helps us grow. Most of our 8-week workshops involve some level of formal (i.e. written and turned in) workshop, while shorter-form classes, like 4-week courses, may have more informal workshops, such as short verbal critique or casual sharing of work. Classes that aren’t workshop-focused may instead be "generative." These courses focus on getting words on paper, creating new work, and encouraging the creative process. These classes aren't focused on critiquing, but encouraging growth and the formation of new projects. The third type of Lighthouse course is the craft class. These courses don't focus on workshopping or generation, but on developing specific skills, or “craft.” Often, these four-week or one-day classes focus on one particular element of the work, like dialogue or plot for prose writers and rhyme or line breaks for poets. Lit Fest is chock-full of these craft classes, known as Craft Seminars, providing participants with a quick yet thorough immersion in some element of writing, and also introducing them to a variety of different instructors and teaching styles.

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Our year is divided into seasonal sessions, each containing a fresh set of 8-week, 4-week, and one-day classes of all genres and levels. The sessions vary in length but are usually around eight weeks long (with the exception of Lit Fest). Each session’s new classes are posted online four to six weeks in advance. The sessions are as follows:

• Winter : First week of January through the second week of March
• Spring : Fourth week of March through the first week of May
• Lit Fest : Second or third week of June
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Class Series There are also several series of courses run at Lighthouse; some are run every session, while others may disappear and reappear as their instructors become available. Regardless of schedule, you may see the following titles reoccur:

Novel Bootcamp This series, taught by Book Project Director/mentor William Haywood Henderson, is a four-part lecture series designed to help students begin (or revise, or finish) their novel and get a handle on the novel-writing process. Take a single part or all four—each part lasts four weeks, with in-class discussion, lectures, writing exercises, and homework. Learn how to get started, organize and improve what you already have created, focus your voice, and, most importantly, finish your book! Memoirists will find that the material in this class applies equally well to creating a memoir—the basics of crafting a book-length dramatic tale are the same for novels and memoirs. Bootcamp is split into the following sections:

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• Novel Bootcamp IV—Your Novel’s Voice

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• Writing Jump-Start—Family, Friends, Lovers, Foes
• Writing Jump-Start—Memory, Obsession, Aversion, Dreams
• Writing Jump-Start—Earth, Air, Fire, Water
• Writing Jump-Start—Nature, Nation, God, Sin

Craft Lessons From Good writing is built on reading. Lighthouse’s faculty knows this, which is why we regularly teach our “Craft Lessons From” series (formerly known as “Reading as a Writer”). Instructors in various genres will select a specific author and work and teach a 4-week craft class on that work, focusing on the techniques that made the novel/short story/memoir/etc. successful. Previous iterations of this series include:

• Craft Lessons from Joan Didion's The White Album
• Craft Lessons from The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 
• Craft Lessons from Black Narratives: Oral and Literary Intention and Impact
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Writing KS2 The Lighthouse 5 complete lessons

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Age range: 7-11

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A set of 5 writing lessons based on the short film ‘The Lighthouse’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo&ab_channel=7even3hreeTv

Suitable for KS2 and can be edited according to your students and year group.

Printable resources are included on the PPT slides.

These lessons could be extended to look at the functions of lighthouses, lighthouses around the world or into PSHE topics such as helping and empathising with others.

If you like this resource, please have a look at my others, which include standalone writing lessons, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Holes and Maths projects.

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