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"Poem for a Birthday" is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath, dated 7 November, 1959 and first appearing in the collection The Colossus and Other Poems published by Heinemann in 1960, by Alfred A. Knopf in 1962, and by Faber & Faber in 1976.
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Poems for Grandmothers, illustrated by Patricia Callen-Clark, Holiday House, 1990. Poems for Brothers, Poems for Sisters, illustrated by Jean Zallinger, Holiday House, 1991. Lots of Limericks, Macmillan, 1991. If You Ever Meet a Whale, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher, Holiday House, 1992. A Time to Talk: Poems of Friendship, McElderry, 1992.
[12] [13] Imbued by his grandmother with a duty to help his race, Hughes identified with neglected and downtrodden black people all his life, and glorified them in his work. [14] He lived most of his childhood in Lawrence. In his 1940 autobiography The Big Sea, he wrote: "I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my ...
Make it a ritual to read one poem every single day of the year thanks the 366 rib-tickling rhymes in this illustrated anthology that won a 2023 Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Award.
Chong's poem, ‘My Hakka Grandmother’, is part of a suite of poems from Contemporary Asian Australian Poets [10] on the NSW HSC syllabus for English, 2019–2023.
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The poem was eventually published in Birthday Letters and Hughes makes a passing reference to this then unpublished collection: "I have a whole pile of pieces that are all – one way or another – little bombs for the studious and earnest to throw at me" (5 April 1997).