It's the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
It's the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people
By (Author) Maxine Beneba Clarke
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
7th June 2023
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
821.008
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
182g
Description
Its the Sound of the Thing is anexuberant and evocative collection of poetryfor young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australias most innovative and celebrated poets.
This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life the sounds of the block, the boredom of detention and the happenings in the schoolyard. Poems about candy, peanut butter and pets. Poems about a big brothers messy room, a grandfathers fading memory and a grandmothers garden magic.
Through haiku, sonnets, narrative verse, rhyming couplets, limericks, free verse, tongue-twisters and more, Maxine invites readers to fall in love with the wonder that is poetry.
Author Bio
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the short fiction collectionForeign Soil,the memoirThe Hate Raceand the poetry collectionsCarrying the WorldandHow Decent Folk Behave.Her children's picture books include the CBCA Honour bookThe Patchwork Bikeand the illustrated poemWhen We Say Black Lives Matter,which was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is currently Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.
