Can I Buy a Slice of Sky? Poems from Black, Asian and American Indian Cultures
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The illustration on our cover this month is by GeorgeUnderwood. It is from Geoffrey Trease's latest book, Fire in the Wind, published by Pan Macmillan, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration. Details of the book are given in our Authorgraph.
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Can I Buy a Slice of Sky? Poems from Black, Asian and American Indian Cultures
This is an uncommonly varied anthology, containing venerable oral traditions as well as the work of unrecognised writers as young as nine. The range of subject matter is also vast: there are school poems and nursery rhymes, laments on oppression and the fragility of human life, and lyrics to landscape and nature. There are poems in Creole, in American dialects, in conversational language and in more rarefied idioms. The overall mood is one of celebration: of diversity and of commonalties within that diversity. An essential collection.
