(Paperback, Main)
By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571357383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The current UK Poet Laureate's popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571377619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate's lyric output.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571382859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A wonderfully energetic and ribald version of what has been called 'the greatest early Middle English poem we have.' (Prospect)
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571357307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem in a new version by the Poet Laureate - now in paperback.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571333851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The eleventh single volume of poetry from one of the Britain's most celebrated and influential contemporary poets, Simon Armitage - now in paperback.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571394470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571361458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A special 'poetry of place' edition to accompany Simon Armitage throughout his laureateship.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571223282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780141040462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571169825
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2001
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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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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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571224104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a powerful Russian telescope.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780141021249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. This title includes stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls, and Yorkshire life and death. It is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571384457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A dystopian verse retelling of the classic tale in a beautiful, illustrated edition.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571229369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Simon Armitage breathes new life into a classic.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571259304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Simon Armitage's ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571166077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571353392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The essential selection of poems from one of the UK's foremost contemporary poets - now in poetry typographic front-list look.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571302963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571334971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Now in paperback - a collection of commissioned, collaborative and occasional poems, demonstrating the range of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's writing outside of his mainstream volumes.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571249947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes a striking new collection.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571278725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A new decorative edition of this classic countdown of succinct verse introduced by one of Britain's foremost contemporary poets
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571340163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Christmas gift edition of Armitage's hugely popular translation: with revised text, and colour illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571176007
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2001
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571298419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Simon Armitage's sparkling translation of the legendary tale of King Arthur.
