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from Bloodaxe,From theDevil's Pulpit(1997),Weblines(2000),We Brits(2006),AlternativeAnthem:Selected Poems (2009),Clever Backbone(2009),Travel LightTravel Dark(2013),Playing the Ghost of Maimonides(2016)andThe Coming of the Little Green Man(2018).He was awarded theQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2012.  \nHe won the Casa de las Américas Prize in 1982 for Man to Pan,a Paul Hamlyn Award in 1997,and a Cholmondeley Award in 2004.We Brits was shortlisted for the 2007 Decibel Writer of the YearAward,and he has won the Guyana Prize twice,first for From theDevil's Pulpit and then for Weblines.  \nAs a touring speaker with the Commonwealth Institute,he visitednearly 2000 schools promoting Caribbean culture and poetry,andhas performed on television and around the world.In 1993 hebecame the first Writer in Residence at London's South BankCentre.In 1998 he was writer-in-residence for the BBC with theWindrush project,and Bard at the Beeb,a selection of poemswritten during that residency,was published by BBC LearningSupport.He was writer in residence at the National MaritimeMuseum in Greenwich in 2007.  \nHe is a popular children's writer whose titles include Get BackPimple(Viking),Laughter is an Egg(Puffin),Grandfather's Old Bruk-a-down Car(Red Fox),I Din Do Nuttin(Red Fox),Points of Viemwith Professor Peekaboo(Bodley Head)and We Animals Would Likea Word with You(Bodley Head),which won a Smarties Award.Einstein,The Girl Who Hated Maths,a collection inspired by math-ematics,and Hello H₂O,a collection inspired by science,werepublished by Hodder Children's Books and illustrated by SatoshiKitamura.Frances Lincoln Children's Books published his recenttitles The Young Inferno(2008),his retelling of Dante,also illustratedby Satoshi Kitamura,which won the CLPE Poetry Award 2009,and Goldilocks on CCTV(2011).His first non-fiction work,Book(Walker Books,2016),tells the history of books in the voice of theBook itself,and was longlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal.  \nHe lives with the poet Grace Nichols and family in Sussex;theyreceived the CLPE Poetry Award 2003 for their children's anthologyUnder the Moon and Over the Sea(Walker Books).  \nJOHN AGARD  \n# The Coming ofthe Little Green Man\n\nBLODAXE BOKS  \nCopyright CJohn Agard 2018  \nISBN:9781780374185  \nFirst published 2018 byBloodaxe Books Ltd,Eastburn,South Park,Hexham,Northumberland NE461BS.  \nwww.bloodaxebooks.com  \nFor further information about Bloodaxe titlesplease visit our website or write tothe above address for a catalogue.  \nSupportedusing public funding byARTS COUNCILENGLAND  \n## LEGAL NOTICE\n\nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may bereproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or  \ntransmitted in any form,or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise,  \nwithout prior written permission from Bloodaxe Books Ltd.Requests to publish work from this bookmust be sent to Bloodaxe Books Ltd.John Agard has asserted his right under  \nSection 77 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988to be identified as the author of this work.  \n## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\n\nThe poem‘A Debate'was first published inPloughshares (USA),Spring 2015,vol.41 no.1  \nPrinted in Great Britain by Bell &Bain Limited,Glasgow,Scotland,onacid-free paper sourced from mills with FSC chain of custody certification.  \nFor those bibulous moments with friends who shared inthe little Green Man's evolution.  \nMark Hewitt for his as ever conspiratorial thoughts;  \nWilliam Wallis for engaging mobile-mise miththe little Green Man's odyssey among vegetables;  \nFacob Ross for time spent journeying withthe little green arrival on a St Lucian veranda;  \nand for my poet-wife,Grace Nichols,  \nfor casting her much-valued eye.  \nCONTENTS  \n11 Nothing to Declare12 Curtains  \n13 The Way of Maps14 Everyday Rituals  \n15 Other-Heart-from-Afar16 Heart  \n17 Full of Nois","cbCaiuTDL4FU2jnO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuTDL4FU2jnO","pdf",2046952,68,"English","# LEGAL NOTICE\n# ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\n# CONTENTS\n## 11 Nothing to Declare\n## 12 Curtains\n## 13 The Way of Maps\n## 14 Everyday Rituals\n## 15 Other-Heart-from-Afar\n## 16 Heart\n## 17 Full of Noises\n## 18 Anonymous Flora\n## 19 Amidst a Multitude of Vegetables\n## 20 The Little Green Man Eats His First Apple\n## 21 The Little Green Man Addresses Bread\n## 22 Instead of a Postcard\n## 23 The Way Not to Go\n## 24 The Speech of Monuments\n## 26 Daring to Cross\n## 27 A Case of Mistaken Identity\n## 28 The Little Green Man Meets the Press\n## 29 A Debate\n## 30 Ticking Boxes\n## 31 Embracing Glorious Uncertainty\n## 32 Breaking the Ice\n## 33 Overnight Shampoo\n## 34 Throwing Caution\n## 35 Bookworm\n## 36 A Bonsai Moment\n## 37 The Little Green Man Goes Pub Crawling\n## 38 Six Takes on the Little Green Man\n## 39 Beware of the Door!\n## 40 Meeting Hedgehog\n## 41 Getting It Politically Correct\n## 42 Letter to the Lexicographer\n## 43 Algebra of the Epidermis\n## 44 Patriot or Not\n## 45 The Little Green Man Addresses a Leaf\n## 46 Keeping Abreast of a Stone\n## 47 Question Time Is Running Out of Time,So One FinalQuestion from the Little Green Gentleman in the Back Row\n## 48 Not Lost in Translation\n## 49 On the Button\n## 50 Looking on the Green Side\n## 51 Keen to Give Blood\n## 52 The Little Green Man at Carnival\n## 53 The Little Green Man Goes on a Blind Date\n## 56 Misgivings from the Far Right\n## 57 The Little Green Man's Nativity\n## 58 Thought for the Day\n## 59 And The Word Was Made Flesh\n## 60 Witness","[{\"question\":\"Who is John Agard and what is his background?\",\"answer\":\"John Agard was born in Guyana and came to Britain in 1977. 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