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When the author burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent, Drawing upon all of his award-winning poetry collections, including Kid, Book of Matches, The Universal Home Doctor and Seeing Stars, this title presen...ts a selection of his poems.
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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's version of this entertaining Middle English debate poem.
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Anthology celebrating the winner, shortlistees & other contributors to the inaugural Brotherton Poetry Prize, 2018-19 (presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre).
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From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, the author tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's b...est loved and most popular writers.
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Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.
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Zoom!
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By Armitage, Simon
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Creates a muscular but elegant language of the author's own slangy, youthful, up to the minuet jargon and vernacular of his native Northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nouns and the benefit of blinkered experience.
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Engaging with the matter of England in the here and now, the author focuses his attention on the conflicts within society.
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As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian. This title features poems that are illustrated with full-colour details from Ti...tian's paintings.
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Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the Book of Matches which are sonnets, Becoming of Age and Reading the Bans , a series of poems about Armitage's marriage....
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Simon Armitage's ?compulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version? (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?offers ?a brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetry? (Poetry... Review) that ?recreates the original's gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and landscapes, and its weird, unsettling drama? (Mark Ford, the Financial Times). This edition, revised by Armitage with advice from scholars Alfred David and James Simpson, also offers a new introduction by the translator.
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