It's the Sound of the Thing

100 new poems for young people

By:

Maxine Beneba Clarke

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Paperback / softback

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It’s the Sound of the Thing is an exuberant and evocative collection of poetry for young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australia’s most innovative and celebrated poets. This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life – the sounds of the block, the boredom of detention and the happenings in the schoolyard. Poems about candy, peanut butter and pets. Poems about a big brother’s messy room, a grandfather’s fading memory and a grandmother’s garden magic. Through haiku, sonnets, narrative verse, rhyming couplets, limericks, free verse, tongue-twisters and more, Maxine invites readers to fall in love with the wonder that is poetry. Shortlisted -- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024 Best Australian Children's Books of 2023 -- The Guardian Best of 2023 -- Aussie Bookstagang One of Readings' 100 Bestselling Kids & YA Books of 2023

Author Biography:

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race and the poetry collections Carrying the World and How Decent Folk Behave. Her children's picture books include the CBCA Honour book The Patchwork Bike and the illustrated poem When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is currently Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.

Release date NZ

June 7th, 2023

Author

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Audiences

Children's (6-12)
Teenage / Young Adult

Illustrations

Black & White

Interest Age

From 9 to 99 years

Pages

208

ISBN-13

9781761212123

Product ID

36498358

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