Keep out of this book if you like dissecting dusty old verse, for this is a collection of today's poetry that is fresh and very much alive! Roger NeGough has gathered an exciting anthology of contemporary poems that will speak to every young reader.
Contributors include Adrian Mitchell, Brian Patten, Ted Hughes, Ivor Cutler, Charles Causley, and Roger MeGough himself.
Within these strictly guarded pages all sorts of poems lie waiting to be discovered, to be enjoyed, to question the usual answers and to dream the special dreams. Here are poems about life in towns and in the countryside, about games, school and leaving school, animals, likes and hates; and there are poems to laugh at and poems of love and emotion: