Overheard On A Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems Edited By - Softcover

Duffy DBE, Carol Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330517120 ISBN 13: 9780330517126

Verlag: Young Picador, 2009

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In an outstanding collection of both classic and new poems, thirty of the best contemporary poets have selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside a poem of their own. Poets such as Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, Wendy Cope, Kit Wright, Andrew Motion, Roger McGough and Matthew Sweeney rub shoulders with the likes of Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Betjeman, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc and e e cummings, to name but a few.

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Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for a decade from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.

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• Verlag: Young Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0330517120
• ISBN 13: 9780330517126
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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