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Title Wicked poems / edited by Roger McGough ; illustrated by Neal Layton.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury, 2004.
2002.

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 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J POETRY 821.914 WIC    Check Shelf
Description 208 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published: 2002.
Includes index.
Contents Big wicked / Helen Dunmore -- Don't steal / Ambrose Bierce -- Haiku / Mike Jubb -- I told a lie today / Robin Mellor -- Matilda / Hilaire Belloc -- Huff / Wendy Cope -- I'm in a rotten mood / Jack Prelutsky -- As the saying goes / Celia Warren -- Old swear word / Steve Turner -- Mobile Sting / Gerard Benson -- Lost on level seven / Dave Ward -- Eddy Scott goes out to play / David Orme -- No rest for the wicked / George Szirtes -- Dream-Stealers / David Bateman -- Hunger / Laurence Binyon -- Deserted village / Berlie Doherty -- Ghost town / Nick Toczek -- Evil doctor mucus spleen / Paul Cookson -- Scarecrow / Stef Pixner -- Hallowe'en / Leonard Clark -- Witches' Chant / William Shakespeare -- In the green wood / Wes Magee -- Nanny Neverley / Philip Gross -- Last witch in nantwich / John Burnside -- Unstable Mabel / Brian Patten -- Stones / Brendan Kennelly -- Mrs. Dungeon Brae / Jackie Kay -- Jamjar / Carol Ann Duffy -- Alternative endings to an unwritten ballad / Paul Dehn -- White ones / Philip Gross -- By the pricking of my thumbs / George Szirtes -- Lazy witch / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Wind in a frolic / William Howitt -- Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke -- To fly / Kevin McCann -- Flight of the roller-coaster / Raymond Soaster -- Like rollerblades / Andrew Fusek Peters -- Brother and sister / Lewis Carroll -- Sometimes / Eve Merriam -- Cradle Song / Wendy Cope -- Dave Dirt's Christmas presents / Kit Wright -- Song about myself / John Keats -- Don't--care didn't care; Mama, mama / Harry Graham -- Tender-heartedness / Harry Graham -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash -- Fair play / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Prayer of the selfish child / Shel Silverstein -- Homework / Stewart Henderson -- Cane / Allan Ahlberg -- Bad report--good manners / Spike Milligan -- Play no ball / Gerard Benson -- It wasn't me / Stewart Henderson -- My furry feet / John Whitworth -- Tongue-twister / Roger McGough -- Goodfellow / Dave Calder -- Kleptomaniac / Roger McGough -- Troll / Tony Mitton -- Sleepy giant / Charles E. Carryl -- Story of little suck-a-thumb / Dr. Hoffman -- Devil / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Fairies / William Allingham -- Visitor / Ian Serraillier -- Huntsman / Edward Lowbury -- Girl who lit the first fire / Mandy Coe -- Anne Boleyn / Barbara Bingley -- Lord lovelace / Charles Causley -- Empty house / Gareth Owen -- Third fiddler's story / Sian Hughes -- Stepmother / Paul Cookson -- While I practice my piano / Matthew Sweeney -- If / Valerie Bloom -- Sad story of terrible Trevor / John Mole -- Leviathan / Connie Bensley -- Limps / Roger McGough -- Boyhood of dracula / Gareth Owen -- Vlad / Dave Calder -- Wicked / John Whitworth -- Wicked or what / Jo Shapcott -- Eve / Colin West -- Claud / Colin West -- Mafia cats / Roger McGough -- Macavity: Mystery cat / T.S. Eliot -- Ransom for a cat / Peter Dixon -- Song of the worms / Margaret Atwood -- Snake's revenge / Brian Moses -- My pony anon; Lone dog / Irene Mcleod / Elegy on the death of a mad dog / Oliver Goldsmith -- Max / John Hegley -- Elephant Yoruba people, Africa; Dragon at a party / Nick Toczek -- Shadow / Michael Rosen -- Spiders cast their spell / John Agard -- Hump / Rudyard Kipling -- Greedy alligator / Colin West -- How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- Art of Dying / Mandy Coe -- Legend / Gillian Clarke -- Power / Corrine Hales -- This is a photograph of me / Margaret Atwood -- Wicked / Tony Mitton -- Iciclist / Christoper Reid -- This poem is soooo *prop* / Ian McMillan -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bully / Christopher Reid -- Something made me do it! / David Harsent -- Village burglar anon; Smiling villain anon; Neighbourhood watch / Roger McGough -- Barbara the barbarian / Simon Rae -- Pirate / Shel Silverstein -- Song of the galley--slaves / Rudyard Kipling -- If all the seas anon; World's worst super-villain / David Bateman -- Confessions of a failed super villain / Paul Cookson -- Charlotte O'Neil's song / Fiona Farrell -- Portrait of my lover as a teaspoon / Selima Hill -- Notting Hill polka / W. Bridges-Adams -- Vanity song / Robin Robertson -- Buinneach bui / Ian Duhig -- Entrails / Connie Bensley -- Say cheese / Andrew Fusek Peters -- He and she / Richard Edwards -- Midnight street / Dave Ward -- Poem / Peter Dixon -- If people disapprove of you / Sophie Hannah -- GBH / David Orme -- "Waiter, there's a thug in my salad!" / Andrew Fusek Peters -- Yobs / David Sutton -- Cake that makes you scream / Dave Ward -- Dream and forgetting / Gyozo Ferencz -- Don't be scared / Carol Ann Duffy -- Lullabye / Roger McGough - Index of first lines -- Index of author names -- Acknowledgements.
Summary A collection of over 120 poems about wickedness, evil, and mischief by such authors as William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Shel Silverstein, and Rudyard Kipling.
Subject Good and evil -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, English.
Added Author McGough, Roger.
Layton, Neal.
ISBN 0747561958 paperback
9780747561958 paperback
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