ABSTRACT
Watch a bonfire being built in the days leading up to 5th November. Note down all the items that you can see on the heap. Read the poem, ‘The Bonfire at Barton Point’ and see how a number of such items have been arranged into two verses: There were beehives, signboards, slats and tables, car tyres, a sledge and a wrecked go-cart, a radiogram with a case of records, some put-together furniture that must have pulled apart. And like patients forsaken in mid operation there were three piece suites in states of distress, gashes in sides, stuffing pulled out, and a huge Swiss roll of a mattress
