Half-caste and Other Poems

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ISBN 13 : 9781444919967
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Half-Caste and Other Poems

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Publisher : Hodder Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780340915660
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)

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Book Synopsis Half-Caste and Other Poems by : John Agard

Download or read book Half-Caste and Other Poems written by John Agard and published by Hodder Murray. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hodder Reading Project Level 4-5 identifies blocks to progression and takes pupils from National Curriculum Level 4 to Level 5. It comprises the Teacher's Resource, Pupil's Book and 6 Readers. Reader 2, Half-caste and Other Poems by John Agard. 'Half-Caste', the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE English for AQA A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the 'AQA' schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit. Through his 45 poems, John Agard explores a wide variety of themes: racial harmony, tension and diversity; war and religion; society, patriotism and politics; as well as more personal ideas on relationships, love and attraction. This is all delivered with a range and depth in terms of content, language, poetic form and technique that will engage and motivate KS3 and KS4 pupils while developing their understanding. An ideal collection to sit at the heart of a scheme of work on cross-cultural themes.

Alternative Anthem

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Alternative Anthem by : John Agard

Download or read book Alternative Anthem written by John Agard and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes poetry from We Brits that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes Weblines that contains three Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god.

Book: My Autobiography

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763678872
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Book: My Autobiography by : John Agard

Download or read book Book: My Autobiography written by John Agard and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books contain countless tales—but what if Book told its own story? From clay tablets to e-readers, here is a quirky, kid-friendly look at the book. Books are one of humankind’s greatest forms of expression, and now Book, in a witty, idiosyncratic voice, tells us the inside story. A wonderfully eccentric character with strong opinions and a poetic turn of phrase, Book tells of a journey from papyrus scrolls to medieval manuscripts to printed paper and beyond—pondering, along the way, many bookish things, including the evolution of the alphabet, the library (known to Egyptians as "the healing place of the soul"), and even book burning. With bold, black-and-white illustrations by Neil Packer, Book is a captivating work of nonfiction by one of England's leading poets.

Follow That Word

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Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444964974
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (649 download)

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Book Synopsis Follow That Word by : John Agard

Download or read book Follow That Word written by John Agard and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father of performance poetry, John Agard, brings you a collection of riotously funny poems. Follow that Word is a celebration of imagination and demonstrates the true diversity of language. A dazzling collection of over sixty poems, Follow That Word delivers John Agard's musings on people and places from the modern and historical world, this wonderful collection that can be rediscovered over and over again. With gorgeous black-and-white illustrations from Momoko Abe, these poems truly come to life for all children, and this collection belongs on every bookshelf. 'It's been around from Creation dawn, And it only takes two to catch on, Try it people, and you'll soon see, This is a dance that can set you free, It's called the dance of diversity.' Reviews for Half-caste, and Other Poems: 'Rollicking Caribbean-flavored rhythms combined with serious matters such as racism define poet extraordinaire, Agard.' - Voya A performance poet, Agard uses his rhyme, repetition and refrains that make his work sing...Skilful use of humour to get his serious points across. - The Book Horn Inc

The Perseverance

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Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1951142438
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis The Perseverance by : Raymond Antrobus

Download or read book The Perseverance written by Raymond Antrobus and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on NPR's Morning Edition A Best Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Poetry School, New York Public Library, and Entropy Magazine Winner of the Ted Hughes Award, Rathbones Folio Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award; finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and Reading the West Book Award In the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer.” The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.

Book

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076367236X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Book by : John Agard

Download or read book Book written by John Agard and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books contain countless tales--but what if Book told its own story? From clay tablets to e-readers, here is a quirky, kid-friendly look at the book. Books are one of humankind's greatest forms of expression, and now Book, in a witty, idiosyncratic voice, tells us the inside story. A wonderfully eccentric character with strong opinions and a poetic turn of phrase, Book tells of a journey from papyrus scrolls to medieval manuscripts to printed paper and beyond--pondering, along the way, many bookish things, including the evolution of the alphabet, the library (known to Egyptians as "the healing place of the soul"), and even book burning. With bold, black-and-white illustrations by Neil Packer, Book is a captivating work of nonfiction by one of England's leading poets.

Suspected Poems

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Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 9385990802
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)

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Book Synopsis Suspected Poems by : Gulzar

Download or read book Suspected Poems written by Gulzar and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For no particular reason He had the blue cow tattooed on his right shoulder He would have been killed in the riots yesterday But they were good people— Seeing a cow, they let him go! Written in Gulzar’s inimitable style, the poems in his newest volume of poetry reflect and comment, sometimes elliptically through a visual image, sometimes with breathtaking immediacy and directness, on the political reality in the country today. Powerful, poignant and impossible to ignore or gloss over, the fifty-two threads that make up Suspected Poems unfold across the entire political spectrum—from the disturbed climate in the country and the culture of intolerance to the plight of the aam aadmi, from the continued oppression of Dalits and minority communities to fluctuating Indo–Pak relations. Written with Gulzar’s characteristic incisiveness and his unique perspective, and translated marvelously into English by Pavan K. Varma, Suspected Poems, made available in a special keepsake bilingual edition, will delight every reader of poetry and Gulzar’s many fans.

Voyage of the Sable Venus

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101911204
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Voyage of the Sable Venus by : Robin Coste Lewis

Download or read book Voyage of the Sable Venus written by Robin Coste Lewis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.

Egghead

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145551912X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Egghead by : Bo Burnham

Download or read book Egghead written by Bo Burnham and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and dedicated following. Bo taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday, making him the youngest to do so in the channel's history. Now Bo is a rising star in the comedy world, revered for his utterly original and intelligent voice. And, he can SIIIIIIIIING! In Egghead, Bo brings his brand of brainy, emotional comedy to the page in the form of off-kilter poems, thoughts, and more. Teaming up with his longtime friend, artist, and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo takes on everything from death to farts in this weird book that will make you think, laugh and think, "why did I just laugh?"

Come All You Little Persons

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571324150
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Come All You Little Persons by : John Agard

Download or read book Come All You Little Persons written by John Agard and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender, moving and joyous story from one of our nation's premier poets, John AgardFrom above earth, from above sky,from below earth, from under water,come all you little personscome exactly as you are.Come little bird person, come little bee person, come little tree person - little persons from all over the world join together to celebrate the dance of life and love in this stunning poem from John Agard. Stunningly illustrated by Jessica Courtney-Tickle, this is a book that both little persons and big persons will treasure and pore over for a lifetime, and is a true poem of our time.'A lyrical collaboration . . . a joyful, tender dance, celebrating people, places and the glory of existence.' Guardian'This book is a celebration of childhood and the natural world in all its rich diversity.' BookTrust

100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393058948
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century by : Mark Strand

Download or read book 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century written by Mark Strand and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century's 100 most enduring poems, selected and introduced by former Poet Laureate Mark Strand. Accounting for the great range of style and content with which poets such as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Federico García Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges responded to the changes and challenges of the twentieth century, 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century is intended as both a unique compendium for the already well-versed and as an engaging introduction for those new to the expansive world of poetry. Alan Ginsberg's struggle—"What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman....In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!"—is echoed by other remarkable poets in this international collection of exciting and moving poems that are alike not in their length or for their status as seminal texts but because they are impossible to forget.

The World's Wife

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 057119995X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis The World's Wife by : Carol Ann Duffy

Download or read book The World's Wife written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

In a Green Night

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)

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Book Synopsis In a Green Night by : Derek Walcott

Download or read book In a Green Night written by Derek Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradise Lost

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Book Synopsis Paradise Lost by : John Milton

Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetry Jump-up

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Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140340532
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry Jump-up by : Grace Nichols

Download or read book Poetry Jump-up written by Grace Nichols and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking collection of children's poetry filled with life, music and rhythm that brings together the voices of black writers from Britain, Africa, America, Asia and the Caribbean. Including work from Benjamin Zephaniah, Maya Angelou and Zinziswa Mandela, this is an exciting anthology, compiled by one of today's top black British writers.

Travel Light Travel Dark

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Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852249915
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis Travel Light Travel Dark by : John Agard

Download or read book Travel Light Travel Dark written by John Agard and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new collection of poetry, 'Travel Light Travel Dark', John Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters. Cross-cultural connections are played out in a variety of voices and candences.