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Poor by Caleb Femi and Citizen by Claudia Rankine

This offer is for school librarians and teachers only.
  
Penguin Press is delighted to offer teachers and school librarians the opportunity to read and review two powerful poetry collections: Poor by Caleb Femi and Citizen by Claudia Rankine. More info on these can be found here.
  
Penguin Press would like to give teachers and school librarians access to both collections via NetGalley links in return for reviews on Amazon, Goodreads etc. Once the offer has closed, all you will need to do to access the books is register for free and request to read the titles, which the publisher will approve.
 
To take part in this offer, please get in touch via the email below with your full name, the name of your school and the email address you will use to create your NetGalley account by Wednesday 30 September.

You will be expected to send links/screenshots of your online reviews to the above email by Friday 20 November. Please don’t get in touch if you cannot commit to this.

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