The Ring of Words

by Roger McGough (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.42

  Roger McGough's 'The Ring of Words' is a perfect introduction to the pleasures of poetry. The poems are, in one way or another, about growing up - placing ourselves in the world around us and discovering the imaginative world in our own heads.

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  'Superb.I love its unpredictability.a subtle and variegated selection and I'd be delighted to give it to my favourite children.' Kate Kellaway, Observer'Anthologies as good as this are few and far between. Roger McGough has chosen poems which reflect feelings, some reassuring, some surprising, all important.' Julia Eccleshare, Guardian'Children like poetry for its imagined worlds, emotional resonance and the way that its sounds and shapes reveal the character and texture of words.Roger McGough's excellent new anthology offers all these and more.' Lavinia Greenlaw, New Statesman

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $4.61