Becoming a Tree Paperback / softback
by James Graham
Paperback / softback
Description
A child climbs a tree and sprouts leaves from his fingertips - not magic, but imagination.
Ancient people drum and play flutes in the echoing caves of Lascaux.
A fire-eater in Mexico City goes to work. A Cairo family find treasure in a rubbish dump. Robin Hood turns up in the 21st century and goes online...
Becoming a Tree is a collection of poetry with three elements: personal, political and humorous.
With a wide range of subject matter and form, its defining feature is its diversity.
Becoming a Tree features a selection of people in history, from the tragic young Tsarevitch Alexei, killed by the Bolsheviks, to the noble Simon Bolivar.
There's also a fun section - poems that are playful, off-the-wall, wacky: the poet tames a sabre-tooth tiger; heroic Torvald Longtooth the otter sets off on an adventure to rival The Odyssey. And there is a nonsense poem that Lewis Carroll himself would have admired.
Poetry grows out of everyday things - a traffic roundabout, a TV commercial break - and James' collection features poems intended both for careful contemplation as well as for more light-hearted reading.
Becoming a Tree will appeal to both established fans of poetry and those interested in discovering more of the genre.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/03/2016
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- ISBN:9781784625443
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/03/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784625443
