Falling Out of the Sky: Poems About Myths and Legends Jackleen Salam

Falling Out of the Sky: Poems About Myths and Legends Jackleen SalamShortlisted for the 2016 CLPE Children's Poetry Award. "An exciting collection that challenges in a way few anthologies for children do." 2016 CLiPPA judges Falling out of the Sky is a treasury of poems which retell classic myths, legends and fairytales from across the world in fun, often tongue in cheek ways. Hansel and Gretels witch takes us behind the scenes of the construction of her gingerbread cottage, and Medusa explains how the snakes on her

write poetry

set mostly in the geographical heart of Europe

She was equally attendant to the subtleties of the human world

Black Moss and Vehicule

humour and invention

2009) and Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe

”For a Cockney brought up in an orphanage because his Italian-rooted father died early

Banipal 25 opens with a tribute to the late poet Mohammed al-Maghut whose death we learnt of as we were going to press

and of course the precious moments of jubilation

Sarah Kirsch

a fresh sense of humour and most importantly – a sense of moderation

the other is an unemployed and illiterate Puerto Rican man