In Praise of Hands by Penny Boxall with Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara Lorraine Mariner As Jay says himself: When

As Jay says himself: When it was decided that this collection would be for teenagers I was left with this determination

like "the way he planted a word in her mouth / to germinate after he’d gone

The River Tyne flows through poems by Wilfrid Gibson

injustice and the anarchic joy of language

This is as true of the explorer Charles Kingsley

In Praise of Hands by Penny Boxall with Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara Lorraine Mariner As Jay says himself: WhenNever published before woodcuts and poems to celebrate the art of the human hand. This creative collaboration between artist Naoko Matsubara and poet Penny Boxall celebrates in words and colours the beauty and variety of the human hand. The series of dynamic woodcuts at the heart of this book was initially inspired by the artists wonder at the busy hand movements of her baby son and grew into a wider celebration of hands in all their extraordinary