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Bisto Merit Award 2005
Reading Association of Ireland Special Merit 2005
Shortlisted for CLPE Poetry Award 2005
White Raven selection 2005
Poetry (Children's)
Book Details:
Price:
€24.95
Binding: hb
Pages: 160
Size: 235x195
ISBN-10 0-86278-906-0
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-906-0
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Rights held:
World, all languages.
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Something Beginning with P
New Poems from Irish Poets
by Seamus Cashman
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Black Flag: Picture books and storytelling to read aloud
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Something Beginning with P is a collection of new poems for children including poems from leading Irish poets: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Máighréad Medbh * Paula Meehan * Brendan Kennelly * Michael Longley * Rita Ann Higgins * Matthew Sweeney * Biddy Jenkinson * Desmond O'Grady * Richard Murphy * Nuala ní Dhomhnaill * Celia de Fréine * Cathal Ó Searcaigh * Frank McGuinness * Julie O'Callaghan * Tom McIntyre * Paul Muldoon * Dermot Bolger * Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin * Frank Ormsby * Siobhán Campbell * Dennis O'Driscoll * John Montague * Moya Cannon * Peter Fallon * Mary O'Malley * Micheal O'Siadhail * John F Deane
Published by the O'Brien Press in association with Poetry Ireland. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Extracts available: read some of this book now ...
Poster featuring The Furk
Poster featuring Mal Magú
Teaching Resources: free to view and download
Teaching guide pages 1-4: Introduction and notes on Feelings and Interesting Characters
Teaching guide pages 5-9: notes on Cultural Diversity, Nature, History, Family and Nonsense/Word Play
Teaching guide pages 10-14: notes on Festivals, Fantasy, Spirituality and Seeing the Illustrations
Teaching guide pages 15-16: Thematic Index to the poems
List of all available resources
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Praise for Something Beginning with P
'a stunning, vividly illustrated book … eye-catching … easy to access … wide ranging and varied in style and subject matter' 'Speaking English' Magazine
Listed in the 'Top ten essential books for every family' Sunday Business Post
'a sumptuous collection of new work by Irish poets. Like all the best anthologies, it offers poems that extend one's definition of what the art can do, especially for children nine years old and upward. It is full of near-the-knuckle honesty, as in Rita Ann Higgins's poem about her father. Many of the poems, such as Michael Longley's "Hallowe'en", mix the playful and the disturbing. Sydney Bernard Smith's "The Day the Dalai Lama met the Pops" is pure genius, and cries out to be set to music and sung on Orange Day parades. This book should be in all schools where English (and Irish) is spoken. It is a place where poets and children meet, with no condescension from the former. Buy two copies -- one will be stolen.' Fred Sedgewick, Times Educational Supplement
'This book is a great party and a parade of Irish poets and poems, lavishly illustrated on every page.' Margaret Meek, The School Librarian
'buy this book but don't just buy one copy; buy at least two: one to keep by you to dip in and out of and one to put away. It's sure to be a collector's item. And the better get another few in case anyone makes off with your other copies.' Inis Magazine
'The numerous colourful illustrations are in themselves works of art and add magnificently to the words of the poems.' Tipperary Star
'More than 100 poets combine their talents to give us this exquisitely produced anthology, with dazzling illustrations by Corrina Askin and Alan Clarke: poems playful, poems profound.' The Irish Times
'The range of subjects covered is extraordinary and every age group, from young children to adolescents will find something to engage their minds.' Village
' this is a fantastic gift and one for keeps. It will be dipped into and enjoyed for many years to come. And don't be put off when it says it's for children: adults will love it too.' Sunday Business Post
'The poems are written for children, which suits all of us. Buy it for your favourite niece. Keep it for yourself.' Olivia O'Leary, The Irish Times
'A dream for parents hoping to inspire a love of poetry, and a book that will never be outgrown.' Sunday Independent
'The most marvellously produced piece of work I have seen in a long time. An investment -- a brilliant book' Robert Dunbar, Rattlebag
'a daring innovation by Ireland's top publisher of children's literature.' Irish Examiner
'If some word-gobbling wizard came and snatched all the poems out of this new anthology, if would still be a pleasure to browse through. Every page [is] a dramatic, often zany display of characters, creatures and tumbling objects, all in spectacular colours. This anthology sets no boundaries to where the imagination can go.' Gordon Snell, The Irish Times
'Top-class illustration and design complete a must-have package for every school, library and home.' Today with Pat Kenny
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