{"product_id":"9781844717224","title":"Off Road to Everywhere","description":"Winner of the CLPE Poetry Awards 2011\u003cp\u003ePhilip Gross's classics of poetry for children, \u003cem\u003eManifold Manor, The All-Nite Café\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eScratch City\u003c\/em\u003e, set a benchmark in the 1990s for opening doors to rich worlds of language and imagination. \u003cem\u003eOff Road To Everywhere\u003c\/em\u003e takes the challenge into a new century. These poems grow out of twenty years of creative writing work with young people, inviting readers to click out of passive consumer mode and think like writers themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSequences like 'Dreams of an Inland Lighthouse Keeper' offer games, techniques and exercises to be used in writing groups for many ages. This is multi-layered poetry, playful, thoughtful and technically brilliant - as gripping in performance as it is on the page. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInviting but completely unpatronising to young readers, welcoming to adults who think that they don't like poetry, these poems open our eyes to the world and to the riches of language as the birthright of everyone. They speak to all ages, and sit confidently on the bookshelf next to Philip Gross's prize-winning work for adults.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038063345904,"sku":"9781844717224","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844717224_p0.jpg?v=1763743900","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844717224","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}