The Coming of the Little Green Man
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The Coming of the Little Green Man

  1. 60 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Coming of the Little Green Man

About this book

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In The Coming of the Little Green Man, his eighth Bloodaxe collection, we enter a world of play and parable, charged with contemporary resonance. Which box should the little green man tick on the question of identity? Will the little green man survive as a minority of one in a multiracial London? What if the little green man volunteers to give blood to 21st-century humankind? Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, he brings to bear his trademark trickster wit that bridges the metaphysical and the political, the comic and the poignant, the oral and the literary. His Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (2009) was followed by Travel Light Travel Dark (2013) and Playing the Ghost of Maimonides (2016). Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781780374185
eBook ISBN
9781780374192
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. Nothing to Declare
  8. Curtains
  9. The Way of Maps
  10. Everyday Rituals
  11. Other-Heart-from-Afar
  12. Heart
  13. Full of Noises
  14. Anonymous Flora
  15. Amidst a Multitude of Vegetables
  16. The Little Green Man Eats His First Apple
  17. The Little Green Man Addresses Bread
  18. Instead of a Postcard
  19. The Way Not to Go
  20. The Speech of Monuments
  21. Daring to Cross
  22. A Case of Mistaken Identity
  23. The Little Green Man Meets the Press
  24. A Debate
  25. Ticking Boxes
  26. Embracing Glorious Uncertainty
  27. Breaking the Ice
  28. Overnight Shampoo
  29. Throwing Caution
  30. Bookworm
  31. A Bonsai Moment
  32. The Little Green Man Goes Pub Crawling
  33. Six Takes on the Little Green Man
  34. Beware of the Door!
  35. Meeting Hedgehog
  36. Getting It Politically Correct
  37. Letter to the Lexicographer
  38. Algebra of the Epidermis
  39. Patriot or Not
  40. The Little Green Man Addresses a Leaf
  41. Keeping Abreast of a Stone
  42. Question Time Is Running Out of Time, So One Final Question from the Little Green Gentleman in the Back Row
  43. Not Lost in Translation
  44. On the Button
  45. Looking on the Green Side
  46. Keen to Give Blood
  47. The Little Green Man at Carnival
  48. The Little Green Man Goes on a Blind Date
  49. Misgivings from the Far Right
  50. The Little Green Man’s Nativity
  51. Thought for the Day
  52. And The Word Was Made Flesh
  53. Witness
  54. About the Author
  55. Copyright