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Mangoes and Bullets

Mangoes and Bullets

by JohnAgard (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $3.41
Synopsis

The themes of these poems - steelbands, stereotypes, weathermen and English girls eating mangoes - mirror the poet's personal itinerary from the Caribbean: a journey with consequences that are political as well as meteorological.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 01 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 185242124X
ISBN 13: 9781852421243

Media Reviews
John Agard from Guyana is an outstanding luminary of the exploding galaxy of West Indian-British troubadours, hilarious and moving by turns, with sharply satiric intelligence conjuring delighted audiences to join * Michael Horovitz *
dis wuk does move and move from myth to moment, dis is a major wuk, a classical wuk, the instrument is finely tuned... * Frontline *
Author Bio
John Agard, poet, performer and story teller, was born in Guyana. He came to Britain in 1977. He is the author of many successful poetry books for children and in 1982, his first adult collection, Man to Pan, won the Casas de las Americas Prize. Lovelines to a Goat-Born Lady, John Agard's poems to Grace Nichols, is also published by Serpent's Tail.