17th June: The Way Things Are - by Roger McGough

The third Sunday in June is Father's Day in the UK and the USA. It is a relatively new holiday, having only been invited after the Second World War - but don't use that as an excuse for getting it!

Here's a poem by Roger McGough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyfkdKgRS4w

18th June: from The Field Of Waterloo by Sir Walter Scott

The Battle of Waterloo - the climatic moment of the Napoleonic wars, took place on 18th June 1815. Napoleon's army was defeated by British and Prussian armies, and the battle ended his long campaign to rule over all of Europe. These stanzas are from 'The Field of Waterloo' by the Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott. Scott created the poem out of descriptions of the battle given to him by those fought there, with the aim of donating profits from the poem's sale to the soldiers. However, not everyone was impressed by him poem, as these scathing lines from one critic makes clear: 'On Waterloo's ensanguin'd lain/Lie tens of thousands of the slain;/But none, by sabre or by shot,/Fell half so flat as Walter Scott.'

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-field-of-waterloo/

19th June: Father's hands by Paul Cookson.

Paul Cookson is a British performance poet who writes mainly for children. Here he offers a child's perspective on the adult world, by focusing on one point of fascination: the father's hands. This is one of Ms Rigg's grandma's favourite poems by the way! :)

https://soundcloud.com/pan-macmillan/19th-june-fathers-hands-by-paul-cookson