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Selected personally by multi-award-winning author and 2001-3 Children's Laureate, Anne Fine, this is a super collection of poetry that shouldn't be missed by any teen. Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Robet Browning, Leonard Clark, Adele Geras, Seamus Heaney, A E Housman, Philip Larkin, Pablo Neruda, Brian Patten and Derek Walcott are amongst the poets featured and there are over 100 poems in total.
From the Back Cover
ANNE FINE
Childrens Laureate 2001-3
Winner of two Carnegie Medals and
twice-winner of both the Whitbread Award and the Childrens Author of the Year Award
and a life-long lover of poetry, has chosen the poems she thinks it would be a shame to miss.
What Ive done here is to pick the poems Ive found young people seem to like best. Show this collection to adults and half will be stabbing the odd page and muttering This ones a bit unsuitable, isnt it? and the other half will be reeling around the room wailing, What, only one Keats sonnet? Only one? Ignore them. Try them all I promise, you wont be sorry later.
Anne Fine
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