Sunday 3 April 2022

Sunday Poem-What's in a name by John Agard.

 Today I decided to subscribe to Poetryarchive.org  and clicked on Children's poems. A wonderful poem What's in a Name popped up and a fantastic reading by the author,John Agard. He is  an Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet and children's author. In 2012 he was selected for the Queen's gold Medal for poetry and in 2021 he was awarded Book Trust's Lifetime Achievement Award.

 I had to remind myself who Rumpelstiltskin was. Can you remember? The miller, in one of those grim Grimm fairy tales, got into a pickle when he claimed to the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold.The king promptly locked her in a tower and commanded her to spin. Rumpel was the imp who could change straw into gold but he had a few stipulations to make before he did so....

Follow links below to hear the author reading his poem and for more info on Rumpel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpelstiltskin

https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/

And the whole sorry tale is found in this link:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/13/fairytales-rumpelstiltskin-brothers-grimm

No comments:

Post a Comment