Changes

The one thing that I hesitated over with this book had nothing to do with the poetry. It was the overall design of the book itself. The end papers are eye catching, very 1950’s ''letter boxes'' by Helen Rawlinson. Inside the pages capture the process of the poems being written by presenting them on different types of paper. There’s graph paper, pages taken from notepads, pages scrunched up ready to go in the bin then straightened out and reused. The effect adds immediacy and is great, but it’s all done in shades of grey. By the end of the book I was desperate for some colour and I suspect that younger readers might be too. Or is that just me? What do you think?

If you like John Hegley you will probably love [[A Children’s Treasury of Milligan by Spike Milligan]].