60 new “Poems for…One World” now available for downloading
You will find thirty different languages represented in the collection. These include : Mandarin, Japanese, Tamil, French, German, Italian, Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Ewe, Igbo, Tigrinya, Somali, Afrikaans and /Xam. The last six named are languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara, either presently or in the past. But this time there is also some variation on the collection's main theme of creating free and open speech between language and language. For instance, the new collection includes a poem called "These are the Hands" by Michael Rosen, the UK Children's Poet Laureate between 2007 and 2009. He was commissioned to write the poem in celebration of the recent 60th birthday of the UK National Health Service. Michael agreed that we could add the poem to our collection and offer…