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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.
Adrian Henri was born in 1932 in Birkenhead. He is associated with the Liverpool Poets and was included in The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10 (1967). This poem originally appeared in The Phantom Lollipop Lady (Methuen) and now appears in The Puffin Book of Twentieth-Century Children's Verse, edited by Brian Patten (pounds 5.99). Copyright Adrian Henri 1986. All this week, the Daily Poem will feature poetry for children.
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