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Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (Book with 'John Agard Live! DVD)

by John Agard - £12.00  Bloodaxe Books Ltd (2009)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781852248239 | ISBN 10: 1852248238

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 30 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. Alternative Anthem is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, with a DVD of filmed highlights from recent performances. It includes poetry from:
 
We Brits: the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions.
 
Weblines: three powerful Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god.
 
From the Devil’s Pulpit: a Devil’s eye view of the world, sweeping from Genesis across time.
 
And other books including Mangoes and Bullets and Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady featuring some of Agard’s best-known poems... ‘Listen Mr Oxford Don’, ‘Palm Tree King’, ‘Half-Caste’, ‘An English Girl Eats Her First Mango’.
 
The DVD with Alternative Anthem has films by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, the filmmaker of Bloodaxe's DVD-book In Person: 30 Poets, of two recent live performances by John Agard. These include many of his best-known poems.

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