The Coming of the Little Green Man
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In The Coming of the Little Green Man, his eighth Bloodaxe collection, we enter a world of play and parable, charged with contemporary resonance. Which box should the little green man tick on the question of identity? Will the little green man survive as a minority of one in a multiracial London? What if the little green man volunteers to give blood to 21st-century humankind? Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, he brings to bear his trademark trickster wit that bridges the metap…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78037-419-2
- EAN: 9781780374192
- Produktnummer: 29243017
- Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 60 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 368 KB
Über den Autor
¿Poet, performer and anthologist John Agard was born in Guyana and came to Britain in 1977. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012. He was writer-in-residence with the BBC in 1998, working with the Windrush Project, and writer-in-residence at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in 2007. His books include eight titles from Bloodaxe, most recently, Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (with live DVD) (2009), Travel Light Travel Dark (2013), Playing the Ghost of Maimonides (2016) and The Coming of the Little Green Man (2018). He lives with the poet Grace Nichols and family in Lewes, East Sussex.
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