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Poems for Little Ones combines the best of classic children’s poetry into one anthology featuring a rich range of themes – from animals to nursery rhymes

Dooley considers the persistence of the past in the present with poems that are witty

’ —Kathryn Maris

V. by Tony Harrison Richard Hamer Within The Collected Poems ofTony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984 85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book length poem, he confronts the foul mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who becomes a foil for his own anger and alienation. The political and media reaction to v. would make a book in itself. This is that book. As well as Tony Harrison's poem and Graham Sykes's photographs,