Samuel Wagan Watson: Love Poems and Death Threats Student Book (Year 12 Texts and Human Experiences)

This comprehensive Student Book offers a deep exploration of the prescribed selection of Samuel Wagan Watson's poems, tailored to the NSW Stage 6 English Focus Area: Texts and Human Experiences.

Designed to guide students step by step, it combines scaffolded learning tasks, targeted writing practice, and rich opportunities for close analysis of the poems. Students will learn how to craft confident, well-supported resources that show insight into the ways Wagan Watson represents individual and collective human experiences.

More than just a study guide, this resource empowers learners to engage meaningfully with the poems, strengthen their skills in close reading and critical and creative writing, and consider the concerns of the poems in terms of insights offered into emotional, intellectual, physical, cultural and lived experiences.

This Student Book covers all seven of the prescribed poems for HSC 2027-2030: 

• 'The Remedy of Butterflies'
• 'Finn'
• 'Let's Talk!'
• 'El Diablo Highway'
• 'Blacktracker... Blackwriter... Blacksubject'
• 'End of Days'
• 'Addendum'