England

Clanchy, Kate

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From the bright young poets of The Very Quiet Foreign Girls Poetry Group comes this stirring anthology of poems singing stories of migration and building new homes in England.

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Publish Date: 14/06/2018

Description

‘Not just good for school children, but great by any standard’ – Phillip Pullman

Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 languages – and one special focus: poetry. In the last five years, its students have won every prize going. They have been celebrated in the Guardian (‘The Very Quiet Foreign Girls Poetry Group’), and the subject of a BBC Radio 3 documentary.

In this unique anthology, their mentor and teacher prize-winning poet Kate Clanchy brings their poems together, and allowing readers to see why their work has caused such a stir. By turns raw and direct, funny and powerful, lyrical and heartbreaking, they document the pain of migration and the exhilaration of building a new land, an England of a thousand voices. In England: Poems from a School, you will find poetry is easy to read and hard to forget, as fresh, bright and present as the young migrants who produced it.

Additional information

Weight 138 g
Dimensions 197 × 133 × 10 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xvii, 77

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.9208 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K