Celebrated for his charismatic delivery, John Agard is in huge demand as a poet. His new book Goldilocks on CCTV (available from Jubileebooks.co.uk Ltd) is an illustrated collection of poems with their roots in the world of traditional fairytales, but brought bang up to date with a very witty, subversive slant.
Goldilocks on CCTV follows The Young Inferno, which John Agard describes as a”teenage version” of Dante’s Inferno”. Very well reviewed, it won the CLPE Poetry Award 2009.
When not writing poems John Agard is busy performing them: “Poetry lives in the breath, “he says, and of performing live: “It’s almost like going back to that collective thing around the fire.”
(Source acknowledgement bookseller 5/12 August)
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