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Rainbow World: Poems from many cultures.
  This work is an authoritative collection of poems from other cultures for the 21st century. Poets included range from Valerie Bloom, Jackie Kay, Benjamin Zephaniah, Lemn Sissay, Meiling Jin, Tao Lang Pee and Bekleen Leong to Rabrindranath Tagore, Monica Alvi and Chuang Tzu. Comprising over 100 contributions, there is a balance of poets in ethnicity and gender, and of poems in content, form and style. Themes covered include: Food, festivals and festivities; Race, culture and identity; Families, friends and enemies; Travel and landscape; Language and nonsense; The animal world; and, School and playground and Mystery, myth and magic.

  • Type:

    Authored Book

  • Date:

    15 May 2003

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Hodder

  • Library of Congress:

    PZ Childrens literature

Citation

(2003). D. Chatterjee, & B. Fraser (Eds.), Rainbow World: Poems from many cultures. Hodder

Editors

Keywords

21st century poetry; multicultural collection; ethnic diversity;

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