John Agard, Author . Bloodaxe $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-85224-480-4
"And in your utmost imaginings/ I began new weavings// spinning rainbow cloths from history's rubble." Agard grew up in Guyana and now lives in England; his accessible, syncopated verse, in dialect and in standard English is well-suited...
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John Agard, Author Little Brown and Company $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-02010-7
Sister Fish looks up from the depths of her river and longs to swim in the sky. Brother Bird peers down at the ``other sky,'' a stretch of blue river he wants to explore. So she takes his wings, and he gains her fins, and soon each is soaring or...
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John Agard, Author, Jennifer Bent, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $13.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1177-7
With the seductive colors and rhythms of Caribbean island life, this alphabet book offers children a window on a neighboring culture that is rich with tradition. Agard weaves the region's exotic and often unfamiliar words and phrases ( Anancy ,...
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John Agard, Author, Grace Nichols, Author, Cynthia Jabar, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56402-156-4
Despite the subtitle of this disparate collection of nearly 40 ``Caribbean'' verses, only six of its entries are authentic folk rhymes-the remainder are an uneven selection of original poems by the Guyana-born Agard and Nichols. In ``Baby-K Rap...
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John Agard, Author, Satoshi Kitamura, Illustrator , illus. by Satoshi Kitamura. Frances Lincoln $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-84507-769-3
British poet Agard pulls off the formidable task of modernizing Dante's 14th-century Inferno
for a teenage audience. This heavily illustrated version features a young black protagonist (wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the word Hell) who...
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John Agard, illus. by Neil Packer. Candlewick, $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7236-2
Although ostensibly a reference source, Agard's history of books is better regarded as a long, freeform meditation, or perhaps even a prose poem. Arranged chronologically and narrated by a personified Book, the history starts with human storytelling—
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John Agard, illus. by Satoshi Kitamura. Scallywag, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-915252-47-0
Agard and Kitamura (The Rainmaker Danced) reteam to explore the role of language in experience—a heady-sounding theme conveyed in deeply affecting words and images. Creature-Of-No-Words, drawn with scribbly orange lines, perceives life as waves of...
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