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Wicked World! - Puffin Poetry
Wicked World! - Puffin Poetry
paperback
Published:
3 August, 2000
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Description
Welcome to the wild and wicked words of Benjamin Zephaniah. You'll find loads of cool people who make up our world in this rapping, happening hip-hop collection. From the South Pole to Mongolia and the Himalayas, this is a real world tour of poems about people and places, cultures and nationalities across our planet.
Includes poems about Inuits, Celts, the history of Britain, Maories, the Dalai Lama, the North and South Poles, and much more - a rhyming round-the-world trip.
Poems that bounce up from the page and demand to be read, rapped, sung and hip-hopped aloud - Independent on Sunday
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780141306834 |
| ISBN10 | 0141306831 |
| Number Of Pages | 96 |
| Item Weight | 87 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 199 x 7 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format | paperback |
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Poems that bounce up from the page and demand to be read, rapped, sung and hip-hopped aloud * Independent on Sunday *
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Author's Bio
Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham and then spent some of his early years in Jamaica. He came to London when he was 22 and his first book of poetry for adults was published soon after. He appears regularly on radio and TV including a Desert Island Discs appearance, literary festivals, and has also taken part in plays and films. He is most well-known for his performance poetry with a political edge for both children and adults and gritty teenage fiction. His collections Talking Turkey, Wicked World and Funky Chickens broke new ground in children's poetry. He is the only Rastafarian poet to be short-listed for the Chairs of Poetry for both Oxford and Cambridge University and has been listed in The Times' list of 50 greatest postwar writers. Benjamin died on December 7 2023 at the age of 65.