Olivia's home is the Green Man Inn, situated in medieval city of London. She is content with her life, running the bustling tavern with her father, and is taken aback when he suggests a long journey in late autumn into the west of the country to meet her mysterious bridegroom. As Olivia gets farth
The Coming of the Little Green Man
โ Scribed by Agard, John
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 40 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Northumberland
- ISBN
- 1780374194
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
โฆ Subjects
POETRY -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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