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).
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Book of Mercy 
Get Out Of My Bath! 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Under the Rock 
Railway Rhymes (Everyman Pocket Poets) 
This Is Yarrow 
Spiritlands 
Mamiaith 
Strong Words 
Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry) 
Counting Backwards 
The Skies Above My Eyes