by James Berry · Gardners Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780753401200
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«Classic Poems to Read Aloud» is the poetry anthology selected by James Berry, published by Gardners Books in hardback (256 pages, in English).
It brings together more than 160 poems from different eras and authors: alongside classics such as Shakespeare, Wordsworth or Blake, more recent voices like Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney appear, with varied themes intended for reading aloud.
The title is part of the Gift Books series, corresponds to the 1997 edition and includes illustrations by James Mayhew.
Suitable for young readers aged 6 and over and for classroom use as a first introduction to poetry.
James Berry, was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois. Berry's writing often "explores the relationship between black and white communities and in particular, the excitement and tensions in the evolving relationship of the Caribbean immigrants with Britain and British society from the 1940s onwards". As the editor of two seminal anthologies, Bluefoot Traveller (1976) and News for Babylon (1984), he was in the forefront of championing West Indian/British writing.
