Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems [with DVD] - Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2012

by John Agard (Author), Pamela Robertson-Pearce (filmmaker) (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.19

  John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 30 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. Alternative Anthem is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, including John Agard Live! , a DVD of filmed highlights from recent performances made by filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. It includes poetry from We Brits in which the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions; Weblines that contains three powerful Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god; and, From the Devil's Pulpit that is a Devil's eye view of the world, sweeping from Genesis across time; and, other collections including Mangoes and Bullets and Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady , as well his children's books, featuring some of Agard's best-known poems - Listen Mr Oxford don , Palm Tree King , Half-Caste , and English Girl Eats Her First Mango .John Agard's latest collection, Clever Backbone , is published by Bloodaxe at the same time as Alternative Anthem .

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  Paperback
  2009

  $13.07

  John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 30 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. Alternative Anthem is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, including John Agard Live! , a DVD of filmed highlights from recent performances made by filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. It includes poetry from We Brits in which the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions; Weblines that contains three powerful Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god; and, From the Devil's Pulpit that is a Devil's eye view of the world, sweeping from Genesis across time; and, other collections including Mangoes and Bullets and Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady , as well his children's books, featuring some of Agard's best-known poems - Listen Mr Oxford don , Palm Tree King , Half-Caste , and English Girl Eats Her First Mango .John Agard's latest collection, Clever Backbone , is published by Bloodaxe at the same time as Alternative Anthem .