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).
Ten Poems about London (Selected and Introduced by George Szirtes) 
Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One) (Selected and Introduced by William Boyd) 
Thirteen Poems of Revenge (Introduced by Sophie Hannah) 
Ten Pre-Raphaelite Poems 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
The Lover's Pinch 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
States of Happiness 
Ten Poems about Aunts (Selected and introduced by Anne Harvey) 
Reading Barry Macsweeney 
Hansel and Gretel 
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats