This Poem Doesn't Rhyme

This Poem Doesn't Rhyme

by Gerard Benson (Editor), Gerard Benson (Editor)

Synopsis

This is an award-winning collection from Gerard Benson, creator of "Poems on the Underground". James Berry and Wendy Cope appear alongside Milton and Shakespeare amongst others to make a wonderfully diverse, fun and exciting collection of verse that shows that poetry doesn't have to rhyme.

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More Information

Format: International Edition
Pages: 160
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 28 May 1992

ISBN 10: 0140342273
ISBN 13: 9780140342277
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years
Prizes: Winner of Signal Poetry for Children Award 1991.

Author Bio
Gerard Benson lives in Yorkshire. He is a poet, story-teller, singer and performer whose travels have taken him all over the world. He has told stories to children in an African garden, a Channel Islands zoo and a Thames cruiser, as well as schools, concert halls and theatres. he has had many jobs, amongst them sailor, actor, teacher, washer-upper and university lecturer. He now writes and gives readings and writing workshops to children and adults. With two friends, Gerard started, and still runs the Poems on the Underground scheme, placing poems on London tube trains. In 1994 he was appointed poet-in-residence at Wordsworth's home, Dove Cottage. This Poem doesn't Rhyme won the 1991 Signal Poetry Award.