A Poem For Everyone: A Treasury of Poems About People
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This issue's cover is from Celia Ree's Sorceress. Celia Rees is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children's Books for their help with this March cover.
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A Poem For Everyone: A Treasury of Poems About People
Collected by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark
This is a breath of fresh air. Harrison and Stuart-Clark have a solid reputation as anthologists but at last, they have taken a few more risks and included far more contemporary writers than the usual suspects. Matthew Sweeney and Jackie Kay rub shoulders with Charles Causley and Roger McGough in a collection of poems about people and characters from all walks of life - members of the family, lollipop ladies, spacemen and stolen snowmen. There are poems about dreams and fantasies and the imagination. The thread running through the collection is best summed up by James Berry's poem 'One': 'Only one of me / and nobody can get a second one / from a photocopy machine... I am just this one.'
