Bossy Parrot by Neil Astley
This book will surprise you. You may even be shocked. It shows what can happen when poetry isn't ignored – as it is in many schools. It's the result of a unique educational initiative in North-East England, the response to challenge thrown down by the region's biggest newspaper, the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle. The past four years have seen an astonishing upsurge of interest in poetry in North-East schools. Poems by children aged from 6 to 18 have been read by half a million people in the Chronicle. Several of these young poets have read their work on television and radio. This book is a collection of the best entries from four years of the Evening Chronicle Poetry Competition. It's both a local landmark and a national event. Some of these youngster may well be the poets of the future. Some are already writing for the next generation.
Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. His books include novels, poetry collections and anthologies, most notably the Bloodaxe Staying Alive trilogy: Staying Alive (Bloodaxe, UK 2002/ Miramax, US 2003), Being Alive (2004) and Being Human (2011), along with Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (2012). His other anthologies (all these from Bloodaxe) include Earth Shattering: ecopoems (2007), The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems (2014), and three collaborations with with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food: nourishing poems for starved minds (2008), and the DVD-books In Person: 30 Poets (2008) and In Person: World Poets (2017). He has published two novels, The End of My Tether (2002), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and The Sheep Who Changed the World (2005). In 2012 Candlestick Press published his selection of Ten Poems About Sheep in its renowned pamphlet series. In 2015 he guest-edited a special international issue of the American literary journal Ploughshares, its first all-poetry issue in its 44-year history. He received an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry from the Society of Authors in 1982 and was given a D.Litt from Newcastle University for his work with Bloodaxe Books in 1995. He is a trustee of Ledbury Poetry Festival, and a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852240400 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852240407 |
| Titel | Bossy Parrot |
| Autor | Neil Astley |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1987-11-05 |
| Seitenanzahl | 64 |
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