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What is the Truth?: Collected Animal Poems Vol 2

What is the Truth?: Collected Animal Poems Vol 2

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The roustabout Rooster, a warrior king, is on fire in this book of prose-linked animal poems, which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. The poems are pure enchantment and ask simple questions about God and his son.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber


Why is it that the roustabout Rooster, raving at the dawn, awakens us so early? A warrior king is on fire! His armor is all crooked daggers and scimitars, and it shivers red-hot - with rage! First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustrated edition remains a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions. . . . the poems are pure enchantment (The School Librarian).

Why is it that the roustabout Rooster, raving at the dawn, awakens us so early? A warrior king is on fire! His armor is all crooked daggers and scimitars, and it shivers red-hot - with rage! First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustrated edition remains a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions. . . . the poems are pure enchantment (The School Librarian).

Weight: 206g
Dimension: 135 x 204 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571349401
Edition number: Main

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