The Book of Whispers
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BfK No. 158 - May 2006
Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration is from Simon Bartram’s Up for the Cup! due to be published in September. Simon Bartram is interviewed by Martin Salisbury. Thanks to Templar Publishing for their help with this May cover.
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The Book of Whispers
(Faber and Faber)
48pp, POETRY, 978-0571227686, RRP £5.99, Paperback
14+ Secondary/Adult
A book of observations and thoughts about teenage life in the form of poems which are whispers. Julie O’Callaghan seems to have tailored the poems for the American market using words like ‘hollered’, ‘cookies’, ‘butt’ and ‘mom’. The poems themselves are more observation than poetry, so although one can imagine a young teenager recognising the situations, the collection feels slight and leaves you feeling empty. HT
