I am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere

A fully illustrated collection of Irish poems, ranging from medieval classics to modern poems from old favourites to new voices in English and Irish, edited by Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko.

Discover thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems in this collection – about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds … and lots, lots more.

Curated with love by the acclaimed children’s poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children’s writer and bookseller Sarah Webb, this is a book to treasure now and always.

Beloved Irish poets sit along old medieval poems and diverse contemporary voices, including Eavan Boland, Seamus, Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Paula Meehan, Thomas Kinsella, Frank O’Connor, Gabriel Rosenstock, Spike Milligan, Michael Longley, Aine Ni Ghlinn, Oscar Wilde, Pat Ingoldsby, Brendan Kennelly, Nikita Gill, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Yeva Skalietska and Polina Cosgrave.