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Product Identifiers

PublisherO'Brien Press, The Limited, T.H.E.

ISBN-101847170927

ISBN-139781847170927

eBay Product ID (ePID)111943804

Product Key Features

Edition3

Book TitleSomething Beginning with P : New Poems from Irish Poets

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicGeneral, Poetry

IllustratorYes, Clarke, Alan, Askin, Corrina

FeaturesRevised

GenreYoung Adult Fiction, Young Adult Nonfiction

AuthorSeamus Cashman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight20.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

Dewey Edition22

Reviews'The poems are written for children, which suits all of us. Buy it for your favourite niece. Keep it for yourself.', 'a stunning, vividly illustrated book ... eye-catching ... easy to access ... wide ranging and varied in style and subject matter', 'This book is a great party and a parade of Irish poets and poems, lavishly illustrated on every page.', 'This unique volume of poetry provides an ideal opportunity for parents, teaches and librarians to inspire a love of poetry among children and indeed to enjoy the diverse variety themselves as well.', 'buy this book but don't just buy one copy; buy at least two: one to keep by you to dip in and out of and one to put away. It's sure to be a collector's item. And the better get another few in case anyone makes off with your other copies.', 'If some word-gobbling wizard came and snatched all the poems out of this new anthology, if would still be a pleasure to browse through. Every page [is] a dramatic, often zany display of characters, creatures and tumbling objects, all in spectacular colours. This anthology sets no boundaries to where the imagination can go.', 'a sumptuous collection of new work by Irish poets. Like all the best anthologies, it offers poems that extend one's definition of what the art can do, especially for children nine years old and upward. It is full of near-the-knuckle honesty, as in Rita Ann Higgins's poem about her father. Many of the poems, such as Michael Longley's "Hallowe'en", mix the playful and the disturbing. Sydney Bernard Smith's "The Day the Dalai Lama met the Pops" is pure genius, and cries out to be set to music and sung on Orange Day parades. This book should be in all schools where English (and Irish) is spoken. It is a place where poets and children meet, with no condescension from the former. Buy two copies -- one will be stolen.', ' this is a fantastic gift and one for keeps. It will be dipped into and enjoyed for many years to come. And don't be put off when it says it's for children: adults will love it too.', 'The most marvellously produced piece of work I have seen in a long time. An investment -- a brilliant book', 'It is a delight to dip into this anthology, as much for my own pleasure as when reading snippets aloud to the young fry, as it is full of fun, fantasy, mystery and mayhem, with some nonsense verse, and lots of unexpected slants on life.', 'The numerous colourful illustrations are in themselves works of art and add magnificently to the words of the poems.', 'Top-class illustration and design complete a must-have package for every school, library and home.', 'The range of subjects covered is extraordinary and every age group, from young children to adolescents will find something to engage their minds.', 'More than 100 poets combine their talents to give us this exquisitely produced anthology, with dazzling illustrations by Corrina Askin and Alan Clarke: poems playful, poems profound.'

Dewey Decimal821.008/0928209417

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisA beautiful collection of specially-commissioned new poems for children of all ages. Includes poems from leading Irish poets: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Máighréad Medbh * Paula Meehan * Brendan Kennelly * Michael Longley * Rita Ann Higgins * Matthew Sweeney * Biddy Jenkinson * Desmond O'Grady * Richard Murphy * Nuala ní Dhomhnaill * Celia de Fréine * Cathal Ó Searcaigh * Frank McGuinness * Julie O'Callaghan * Tom McIntyre * Paul Muldoon * Dermot Bolger * Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin * Frank Ormsby * Siobhán Campbell * Dennis O'Driscoll * John Montague * Moya Cannon * Peter Fallon * Mary O'Malley * Micheal O'Siadhail * John F Deane Published by The O'Brien Press in association with Poetry Ireland. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland., A spectacular collection of specially-commissioned new poems for children, including poems from Ireland's leading poets. Beautifully illustrated, and multi-award-winning., A collection of poems for children featuring the work of leading Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Paula Meehan, Brendan Kennelly, and more.