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Burke, Helen

 
9781908853424: Here's Looking at You Kid

Synopsis

Helen Burke is a poet constantly on tour, and at each stop she makes time to take requests from the audience, for favourite poems from her vast back catalogue. These 'requested poems' have been brought together for Here's Looking at You Kid, the long-awaited follow-up to Helen's much-loved first collection The Ruby Slippers. Like its predecessor, this new book includes notes on each poem, a generous sprinkling of Helen's unique illustrations, and an introduction by the author.

Readers will at long last discover the secrets of 'hospital lingo', find out why dogs are so especially kind, learn how to handle mothers who are at 'that difficult age between 81 and 81-and-a-half', and the lurid details of 'what they found in the poet's stomach'. These are poems selected by the public, and tested on audiences all over the world. Each one is someone's favourite - but which will be yours?

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À propos de l'auteur

Helen Burke was born in Doncaster, 1953, and started writing poetry in the 1970s. Since then she has amassed an impressive record of competition victories, including the Manchester International, the Suffolk Poetry Prize, and the Ilkley Literature Performance Poetry Prize (twice). Her work has been published in Rialto, New Welsh Review, Northwords, Dreamcatcher, as well as in numerous anthologies and pamphlets. Her first full-length collection, The Ruby Slippers, was published by Valley Press in 2011.

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