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  • Published: 25 May 1989
  • ISBN: 9780141935454
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

Cat Among the Pigeons

Poems




A brilliantly funny collection of poems involving everyone's favourite anti-hero Dave Dirt, the extraordinary afternoon of a prawn and the mysterious tale of Zoe's earrings.

Witty, touching and clever - this is a classic collection from the irreverent Kit Wright.

  • Published: 25 May 1989
  • ISBN: 9780141935454
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

About the author

Kit Wright

Kit Wright was born in 1944 and is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children. His books of poetry include The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (1977), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and Short Afternoons (1989), which won the Hawthornden Prize and was joint winner of the Heinemann Award. His poetry is collected in Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000 (2000).

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Praise for Cat Among the Pigeons

Kit Wright's poetry for children has an exuberance, a vitality, and a technical virtuosity that works equally well on the page or when read aloud.

Twentieth Century Children's Writers

One of the most able poets for children around is Kit Wright.

Independent

Enchanting... will cause rapturous giggles as well as encouraging a sense of word play and imagery that no home should be without.

Daily Telegraph

He's funny, clever, nimble and moving. Above all, his poetic generosity refuses to consider serious subjects as out of bounds just because he's writing for a young audience.

Evening Standard