I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb

Beloved Irish poets including:

• Eavan Boland
• Seamus Heaney
• W.B. Yeats
• Paula Meehan
• Thomas Kinsella
• Frank O'Connor
• Gabriel Rosenstock
• Spike Milligan
• Michael Longley
• Áine Ní Ghlinn
• Oscar Wilde
• Pat Ingoldsby
• Brendan Kennelly

sit along old medieval poems and diverse contemporary voices including:

• Nikita Gill
• Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
• Yeva Skalietska
• Polina Cosgrave

 

You’ll find thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems here. Poems about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds… and lots, lots more.

Chosen with love by the acclaimed children’s poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children’s writer and bookseller Sarah Webb.

 

A book to treasure now and always.