Poems the wind blew in: Poems for children

By Karmelo C. Iribarren, Lawrence Schimel and Riya Chowdhury

Open this book carefully: as soon as you do, the wind will sweep you up across the city. You'll roam down empty streets, take a ride on the Metro and see magical things – but there's always time to stop and look about the world around you: the night, the rain, and the sea. These poems focus on everyday, small things – and breathe new life into everything that children see around them. A plastic bag dreams of becoming a cloud, raindrops go on holiday to the sea, and hats fill up with thoughts. The book builds an immersive, tender world – and through its gentle sense of humour and striking images it teaches children to look closely at everything they come across. Suitable for children aged 6+.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Emma Press
• Release date: Sep 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781912915637

Karmelo C. Iribarren

Karmelo C. Iribarren (San Sebastián, 1959) is a best-selling poet who has published twelve collections of poetry, as well as various volumes of his selected or complete poems. In prose, he has published "Diario de K", which alternates aphorisms, prose poetry and picturesque observations about his city. "Poems the wind blew in" is his first (and so far only) collection of poems for younger readers.

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This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN’s ‘PEN Translates’ programme, supported by Arts Council England. English PEN exists to promote literature and our understanding of it, to uphold writers’ freedoms around the world, to campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and to promote the friendly co-operation of writers and the free exchange of ideas. www.englishpen.org

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THE EMMA PRESS

First published in Spain as Versos que el viento arrastra by Ediciones El Jinete Azul in 2010.

© Versos que el viento arrastra by Karmelo C. Iribarren 2010.

First published in the UK in 2019 by the Emma Press Ltd.

English translation © Lawrence Schimel 2019.

Illustrations © Riya Chowdhury 2019.

This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN’s ‘PEN Translates’ programme.

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The right of Karmelo C. Iribarren, Lawrence Schimel and Riya Chowdhury to be identified as the creators of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright,