The Poetry Station | Summer with Monika

AQA GCSE Voice and Relationships, A Poetry Player, Celebration, Grief, Humour, Language, Love, Rap and Slam,

Summer with Monika by Roger McGough

A short animated film based on Roger McGough’s classic quirky love poem ‘Summer with Monika’.

This film first appeared on Channel 4.

Length: 4:29m Topics: Humour, Love, Poems with Film or Animation, Valentine's Day,

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Delia | 16 January 2010

Brilliant! I’ve always loved the poem - great with the voice and animation….

james sutherland-smith | 24 January 2010

Musical accompaniments have an irritating feature of broadcasting poetry in Central Europe for decades. They’re distracting and interfere with the feelings that the poem should be arousing. The poem should stand on its own. Visuals are less objectionable as they don’t involve hearing.
But surely you can be a bit more ambitious than McGough’s woeful sentimentality.

Tasia Smith | 29 September 2011

This is a truly wonderful piece and really captivates summer love and the feeling of woe when the relationship ends, it even involves personification when he sees her with his objects, it brings a feeling of jealously to mind, maybe?
This is a very funny and well written piece which a thoroughly enjoyed.
You could try to make the piece a little shorter to keep the listener interesting? but apart from that a sterling effort and commendable piece!