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ISBN: 9780571278725 - Short and Sweet Bestseller Short and Sweet
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571278728  ISBN13: 9780571278725
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
Shows how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion. "Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology... More

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ISBN: 9780571249930 - Seeing Stars Bestseller Seeing Stars
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571249930  ISBN13: 9780571249930
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Jan 2011
A collection of poems that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. It creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected. More

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ISBN: 9780571210763 - Selected Poems Bestseller Selected Poems
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571210767  ISBN13: 9780571210763
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Aug 2001
This selection offers a retrospective of the contemporary poetry of Simon Armitage, and is a perfect introduction to his work. It includes work chosen by the poet from six published volumes. Snow Joke 3 It Ain't What You Do It's What It Does to... More

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ISBN: 9780571223282 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Bestseller Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571223281  ISBN13: 9780571223282
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Mar 2009
A green knight on a green horse rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with... More

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ISBN: 9780571249473 - The Death of King Arthur Bestseller The Death of King Arthur
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571249477  ISBN13: 9780571249473
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Jan 2012
Deals with the warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. "The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written... More

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ISBN: 9780571249947 - Seeing Stars Seeing Stars
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571249949  ISBN13: 9780571249947
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Aug 2011
Offers a collection that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. The author creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the... More

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ISBN: 9780141027111 - The Poetry of Birds The Poetry of Birds
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0141027118  ISBN13: 9780141027111
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Feb 2011
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. More

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ISBN: 9780571229369 - Homer's Odyssey Bestseller Homer's Odyssey
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0571229360  ISBN13: 9780571229369
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2007
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. More

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ISBN: 9780141040462 - All Points North All Points North
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 0141040467  ISBN13: 9780141040462
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 May 2009
Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - this title explores growing up and being Northern. "All Points North" is part... More

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ISBN: 9781904634584 - Out of the Blue Out of the Blue
Simon Armitage

ISBN10: 1904634583  ISBN13: 9781904634584
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 Feb 2008
The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out of the Blue was... More