Description
Why is it
The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn
Wakes us so early?
A warrior king is on fire!
His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars
And it’s shivering red-hot – with rage!
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains ‘a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment’ (The School Librarian).
Selected Poetry 
28 Poems 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Gold from the Stone 
The Tamarit Poems 
Airmail 
Swansea Automatic 
The Smeds and the Smoos