Description
By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
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.
Published: 7th June 2023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Audience: Children
For Ages: 9 - 99 years old
Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Country of Publication: AU
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.5 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.18