John Agard
Half-Caste and Other Poems
Paperback
(Hodder Children's Books Sept. 15, 2005)
, UK ed. edition
One of the the UK's top performance poets explores issues of race and identity with a mixture of new poems and old favourites for teenagers. 'Half-Caste' is one of the poems on the AQA GCSE English syllabus and thus studied by every student following this major syllabus. As a consequence it and its author are among the best-known in secondary schools. John Agard is also very active touring England with GCSE POETRY LIVE, day-long events of poetry discussion and performance reaching some 80,000 students each year. HALF-CASTE AND OTHER POEMS is aimed directly at the audience for GCSE POETRY LIVE. Built around this seminal poem, it is a mixture of old and new poems that address core issues and experiences for young people. Race and cultural identity is a primary theme and shapes the book. But although he includes poems such as 'Checking Out Me History' about the way the black perspective on history has been ignored, John is just as interested in celebrating the richness of human diversity in poems full of wit, compassion and hope. There are poems about violence, the environment, relationships, politics and grief, alongside
- Series
- Poetry
- ISBN
- 0340893893 / 9780340893890
- Pages
- 80
- Weight
- 2.9 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 0.2 in.
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