Seeing Stars
Author(s): Simon Armitage
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.
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From the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes a striking new collection.
Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 2010.
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was a winner of one of the first Forward prizes, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collections of poetry include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time, The Universal Home Doctor and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid. His acclaimed verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2007, and he was awarded a CBE for services to poetry in 2010.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber and Faber
- : 0.085
- : 01 January 2011
- : 198mm X 126mm X 7mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Simon Armitage
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 821.914
- : 96