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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Schools get a taste for it sometimes when they invite poets in to read from and talk about their work. Children get excited by it when with six minutes to go before lunch on a wet Wednesday in October Miss pulls down a book they haven’t seen before and without any introduction begins reading. By the end of the poem the class is completely silent the quietest they have been for any activity all term. A boy with reading and behavioural difficulties puts up his hand and says ‘Can we have that again please Miss?’. The same boy two weeks later crosses out some of his work (another first) to make it ‘Sound more like it’s me’. In his poem about a storm he has written ‘The lightning was coming down and it was coming down’. His teacher hasn’t put red ink through this sentence but stop at his desk instead to ask him if there were any noises accompanying the lightning. The boy pauses then says ‘Yes a crackling noise’. She asks what the noise reminds him of. Another pause. ‘Like a crisp packet.’ The teacher moves on and the boy writes down “The lightning flashed / like a crisp packet / tearing open. (LL)