The Poetry World of John Agard by John Agard, illustrated by Shirley Hottier Novels in Verse Darling is fleeing a life

Darling is fleeing a life that never fit

Tigress is wildly inventive

 Feral’s voices carve out a space in the borderlands

desire and solitude

in the mid-1970s

The Poetry World of John Agard by John Agard, illustrated by Shirley Hottier Novels in Verse Darling is fleeing a lifeShortlisted for the CLiPPA: the only award solely to highlight published poetry for children. A towering figure in the childrens and YA poetry world, John Agard has chosen favourite poems from eight of his previously published collections: I Din Do Nuttin; Say it Again, Granny; No Hickory, No Dickory, No Dock; Laughter is an Egg; Grandfather's Old Bruk a Down Car; We Animals Would Like a Word With You; Come Back to Me My Boomerang, and Points of View