The Coming of the Little Green Man by John Agard

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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 – in which the little green man stands for all pesky outsiders – in provocative poems 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).

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Dimensions 216 × 138 mm
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Paperback