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PUBLISHER: Pan Macmillan

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780330517126

RRP: £5.99

PAGES: 96

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 1, 2009

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Overheard On A Saltmarsh: Poets’ Favourite Poems Edited By

Carol Ann Duffy

In an outstanding collection of both classic and new poems, thirty of the best contemporary poets have selected their favourite children’s poem to appear alongside a poem of their own. Poets such as Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, Wendy Cope, Kit Wright, Andrew Motion, Roger McGough and Matthew Sweeney rub shoulders with the likes of Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Betjeman, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc and e e cummings, to name but a few.

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy is one of Britain’s foremost and highly acclaimed contemporary poets. She has written several collections of poetry and edited anthologies for both children and adults. Her last children’s collection, The Oldest Girl in the World, received the Signal Poetry Award, as did her anthology for younger readers, Stopping for Death. She has a recent adult collection out called Feminine Gospels, published by Picador. She lives in Manchester and has a seven-year-old daughter.

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