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).
Forgive the Language 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Lotus Gatherers 
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind (Edited by Jonathan Bate) 
How Many Quacks Till Christmas? 
Essential Bukowski 
Just Like Brothers 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Six Poets 
Under the Rock 
Surviving 
Cat Poems 
Mr. Mistoffelees