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Vaxine Beneba Clarke Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Poet in Residence, University of Melbourne. Author of Foreign Soil, How Decent Folk Behave, The Hate Race, Carrying The World, The Patchwork Bike etc. She/Her

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Book Cover for: Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll

Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
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Also, wasn’t Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland actually a pedophile? 👀

Paperback, 2015

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll
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Also, wasn’t Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland actually a pedophile? 👀

Paperback, 2010

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How Decent Folk Behave, Maxine Beneba Clarke

How Decent Folk Behave

Maxine Beneba Clarke
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I'm giving a keynote at the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English @VATE_English Middle Years Conference this year. 🎇Registration includes a copy of my poetry book How Decent Folk Behave. Hope to see some of you English-teaching folks there. https://t.co/0Us8wm3yu7

Paperback, 2023

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl
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Odd that while they were editing Dahl's books they didn't take the op to make Charlie from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Black, like Roald Dahl originally wrote him to be before his agent intervened. I bet they workshopped doing it though.

Paperback, 2007

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ishmael Reed

The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda

Ishmael Reed
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Finally took the kids to see Hamilton tonight. Extraordinary theatre. Our tickets 2 years ago were thwarted by a lockdown. Have also just ordered Ishmael Reed’s play ‘The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda’, which I’ll be reading to the kids over several dinner times.

Paperback, 2020

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Metamorphosis

Kafka
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Someone needs to write this non-fiction account: a modern day ‘social media age’ update on Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

Paperback, 2020

$10.97$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite
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While I have everyone here, read My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, it’s great.🤷🏾‍♀️

Paperback, 2019

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington, Walt Whitman

Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington

Walt Whitman
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English teachers! Here's great new poetry resource. It accompanies Paul Kelly's anthology of his fave poems Love as Strong as Death, but can be used alone. Includes PK performing some poems as songs & me reading poems by Warsan Shire, Gwen Harwood, Walt Whitman & me. Link below.

Hardcover, 1994

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Albion

Mike Bartlett
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@A_Kabaker Albion by Mike Bartlett at The Seymour Centre (on for another week). It’s actually absolutely brilliant, tree-sex and all. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Paperback, 2018

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems, Warsan Shire

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems

Warsan Shire
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English teachers! Here's great new poetry resource. It accompanies Paul Kelly's anthology of his fave poems Love as Strong as Death, but can be used alone. Includes PK performing some poems as songs & me reading poems by Warsan Shire, Gwen Harwood, Walt Whitman & me. Link below.

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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