The Coming of the Little Green Man

The Coming of the Little Green Man

by JohnAgard (Author)

Synopsis

In The Coming of the Little Green Man, Agard's 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, the Caribbean-British poet brings to bear his trademark trickster wit that bridges the metaphysical and the political, the comic and the poignant, the oral and the literary.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 25 Oct 2018

ISBN 10: 1780374186
ISBN 13: 9781780374185

Media Reviews
`John Agard's poetry is a wonderful affirmation of life, in a language that is as vital and joyous as we are able to craft it in the Caribbean, in spite of our history of distress.' - David Dabydeen; 'John Agard's most ambitious book yet and a wholly original take on the endless wars of the 21st century... It's a clever and entertaining book, with wisdom accompanying the perplexity.' - Andy Croft, Morning Star [on Playing the Ghost of Maimonides]; 'Many of us know his poetry through its popularity in schools, with its delightful mixture of subversion and levity... but Playing the Ghost of Maimonides is far from a children's book... This is a complex, adult text that grapples with sectarian extremism, the Torah and Koran, humankind's perpetual tribal Iliad ... But it is also an attempt to recalibrate spiritual poetry to contain our new reality' - Clare Pollard, The Poetry Review
Author Bio
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.