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Half-Caste and Other Poems<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hodder Literature<\/a>
\n2005-09-15
\nPaperback: 80 pages
\n19.4 x 12.2 x 0.8 cm
\nISBN-10: 0340893893
\nISBN-13: 978-0340893890<\/p>\n

John Agard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018Half-Caste<\/a>\u2019, the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE<\/a> English for AQA<\/a> A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the \u2018AQA\u2019 schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit.<\/p>\n

Through his 45 poems, John Agard explores a wide variety of themes: racial harmony, tension and diversity; war and religion; society, patriotism and politics; as well as more personal ideas on relationships, love and attraction. This is all delivered with a range and depth in terms of content, language, poetic form and technique that will engage and motivate KS3 and KS4 pupils while developing their understanding. An ideal collection to sit at the heart of a scheme of work on cross-cultural themes.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

And All Was Good
\nMy Move Your Move
\nUnion Jack and Union Jill
\nHalf-caste<\/a> [Read here<\/a>.]
\nRainbow
\nTongue
\nA Word
\nMessage From Your Mobile
\nRight-On Mr Left
\nSmoke-loving Girl Blues
\nAngels For Neighbours
\nFlag
\nA Vampire’s Priorities
\nA Hello From Cello
\nThe Hurt Boy and The Birds
\nBoomerang
\nThat Mouth
\nBehold My Pen
\nPunctuating The Silence
\nPoetry Jump-Up
\nFollow That Steel Pan
\nCoal’s Son and Diamond’s Daughter
\nA Date With Spring
\nvolte For Your Local Shadow
\nTwins
\nQuest
\nClouds
\nThe Ozone Liar
\nCowtalk
\nWho’ll Sve Dying Man?
\nFor the Record
\nOne Question From A Bullet
\nA Hand On A Forehead
\nNot Arms
\nChecking Out Me History
\nToussaint L’Overture Acknowledges Wordsworth’s Sonnet ‘To Toussaint L’Overture’
\nWindrush Child
\nCrybaby Prime Minister
\nSkin
\nA Social Skeleton
\nThe Giant With A Taste For Mongrel Blood
\nBehind The Menu
\nSalt
\nCoal
\nMarriage of Opposites
\nNotes<\/p>\n