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A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks
Ranjit Bolt
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Description for A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks
Hardback. When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: WH; YDP. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 139 x 206 x 16. Weight in Grams: 218.
When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and offer them at a market in his home town of Cambridge when not writing plays. Readers would go away chuckling to themselves and the booklets flew away. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski.
When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and offer them at a market in his home town of Cambridge when not writing plays. Readers would go away chuckling to themselves and the booklets flew away. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gibson Square Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783340828
SKU
9781783340828
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Ranjit Bolt
Ranjit Bolt was born in Manchester and studied at the University of Oxford. He worked in London for eight years as a stockbroker, writing and translating plays verse at night (his father is the poet and don Sydney Bolt, his uncle the poet and screenwriter Robert Bolt). When Jonathan Miller staged one of his plays, it became a surprise success ... Read more
Reviews for A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks
'The rhythms and particular delights of the limerick form are so well exploited here. Perfect poems.' STEPHEN FRY: 'Ranjit Bolt is the deftest, most dexterous of wordsmiths, able to make an Alexandrine dance and anapaests do headstands. Here he is proving himself a limericist extraordinaire.' SIMON CALLOW