The Works 8 really does contain every shape, genre, style and form of poem that you will every need for the Literacy Hour, but it is also a book packed with fantastic poems that will delight every reader. Compiled by expert anthologist John Foster, this is an incredible alphabet of poetic forms which includes acrostics, ballads, cinquains, diary poems, epitaphs, fables, greetings, haiku, insults, jokes, kennings, limericks, metaphor poems, nonsense poems, odes, parodies, question poems, raps, sonnets, tanka, univolics, villanelles, warnings, x-ray poems, yearnings and zoo plaque poems.
- ISBN10 0330464078
- ISBN13 9780330464079
- Publish Date 6 February 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English