The Poetry World of John Agard by John Agard, illustrated by Shirley Hottier Novels in Verse desire and solitude

desire and solitude

'Wendy Cope's readership

 Feral’s voices carve out a space in the borderlands

the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations between mind and body

Against such injunctions

The Poetry World of John Agard by John Agard, illustrated by Shirley Hottier Novels in Verse desire and solitudeShortlisted for the CLiPPA: the only award solely to highlight published poetry for children. A towering figure in the childrens and YA poetry world, John Agard has chosen favourite poems from eight of his previously published collections: I Din Do Nuttin; Say it Again, Granny; No Hickory, No Dickory, No Dock; Laughter is an Egg; Grandfather's Old Bruk a Down Car; We Animals Would Like a Word With You; Come Back to Me My Boomerang, and Points of View