All The Poems You Need to Say Hello - Hardcover

Clanchy, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330433849 ISBN 13: 9780330433846

Publisher: Picador, 2004

Synopsis

There is no way more appropriate to mark a new arrival than with poetry - and in this profoundly celebratory book, poet and columnist Kate Clanchy has made an inspired choice of poems that speak powerfully of the wonder, joy, bewilderment and mystery that new life brings. Charting the whole process from conception through to pregnancy and birth, "All The Poems You Need to Say Hello" is perfect for expectant parents - and an ideal gift for new parents. Poems from across the centuries by men and women - from Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath and Helen Dunmore to Seamus Heaney, Hugo Williams and William Blake - chart the whole experience, mirroring the ups and downs and moments of despair and joy.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. Her poetry collection Slattern won a Forward Prize. Her short story ‘The Not-Dead and the Saved’ won both the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award and the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. Her BBC 3 radio programme about her work with students was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes prize. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature, and an anthology of her students' work, England: Poems from a School, was published to great acclaim. In 2019 she published Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, a book about her experience of teaching in state schools for several decades.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330433849
• ISBN 13: 9780330433846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112