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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (with DVD) [With DVD]

Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (with DVD) [With DVD]

Agard, John
Robertson-Pearce, Pamela

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ISBN10: 1852248238
ISBN13: 9781852248239
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Jan 26 2009
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. Alternative Anthem is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, including John Agard Live!, a DVD of filmed highlights from recent performances made by filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. It includes poetry from We Brits in which the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions; Weblines that contains three powerful Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god; and, From the Devil's Pulpit that is a Devil's eye view of the world, sweeping from Genesis across time; and, other collections including Mangoes and Bullets and Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady, as well his children's books, featuring some of Agard's best-known poems - Listen Mr Oxford don, Palm Tree King, Half-Caste, and English Girl Eats Her First Mango.

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