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Following on from the success of Kamikaze Mouse, the 'Headteacher Poet' Duncan Thompson brings you a second collection of poems based on the strange things he's heard and seen in his own school, as well as the strange things he's been asked in school assemblies in other schools. Challenged to come up with poems on dead hedgehogs, throwing sweetcorn at people and who is better, Ronaldo or Messi, he triumphed. Could he write poems about a child getting their hand stuck in a watercooler, a school being closed because of a bee invasion, or even about a Vaquita (which research showed was a rare type of dolphin)? Yes, of course he could, and the results are inside this book. Do you want to know what happened when the dinosaurs attacked the school? Would you like to find out what happened to Mary Anning's dog? Have you heard of the granny who had toothache even though she had no teeth? These mysterious await you inside, and many more!

Working as a teacher, and then a headteacher, you're never sure of what each day is going to bring. When the day gives you lines like 'There's a wasp in my trousers' or 'I wish I was a bird, so I could poo on people', the poet inside grabs them and won't let go until a poem has been written.

Provides a summary of the history of New Left Review and its political development starting from 1962. This book traces NLR's attempts to develop socialist politics, through the old Labour of Harold Wilson, through heady days in 1968, through new Marxist theory, through the Cold War years and into the era of contemporary capitalist globalisation.