Guzzling Jelly with Giant Gorbelly

by JohnRice (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.47

  Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of John Rice's poems, which are packed with lambs who have laptops, cats who chat and, of course, giants! There is also some wise advice about wolves and instructions on how to build a castle in the woods.

  This is a glorious collection of John Rice's wonderfully varied and always brilliant verse.

  A minute to midnight

  A minute to midnight

  and all is still

  except for the things that are moving.

  Like, for example,

  rivers, clouds, leaves, flags,

  creaky windmills, lungs, birds' feathers,

  digital clocks, grass, the wind,

  non-sleeping animals (especially wolves),

  planet Earth, the moon, satellites in space,

  toenails (well they grow, don't they),

  videos that are set to record

  programmes in the middle of the night,

  washing lines,

  mobiles above babies' cots --

  and babies' eyelids, they always flicker.