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Poetry & Drama

The Death of King Arthur

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(73 reviews)

The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and... See More

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Travel & Tourism

Walking Away

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(294 reviews)

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Kid (FF Classics)

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(17 reviews)

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... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Out of the Blue

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(22 reviews)

This book brings together three verse form pieces each of which was created to be part of a broader form. 'Out of the Blue' itself is a powerful, award-winning, poem-film created five years after the attacks which destroyed... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

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(40 reviews)

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body... See More

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Poetry & Drama

The Last Days of Troy

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(27 reviews)

Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death... See More

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History & Criticism

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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(1,141 review)

When the mysterious Green Knight arrives unbidden at the Round Table one Christmas, only Gawain is brave enough to take up his challenge... This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most enthralling, dramatic and... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014

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(187 reviews)

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Cloudcuckooland

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(4 reviews)

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. The sequence of eighty-eight poems at the heart of... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Book of Matches

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(83 reviews)

'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday 'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Homer's Odyssey

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(98 reviews)

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Seeing Stars

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(29 reviews)

Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka... See More

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Poetry & Drama

The Dead Sea Poems

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(26 reviews)

Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'. Elsewhere, questions of belief... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems

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(102 reviews)

The large village of Marsden, West Yorkshire not only was home to Simon Armitage's beginnings as writer, but has continued as a vital presence throughout his works: from his very first pamphlet, Human Geography (1988), to... See More

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History & Criticism

A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures

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(23 reviews)

This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his 'conscientious and often amusingly self-conscious tenure' (TLS) as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Armitage tries... See More

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Poetry & Drama

The Universal Home Doctor

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(8 reviews)

As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the rainforests of South America... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Zoom!: 25th anniversary ebook edition with audio

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(18 reviews)

Simon Armitage's debut collection Zoom! launched his meteoric rise to poetic stardom in 1989. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award, it was a Poetry Book Society Choice. This ebook edition incorporates audio files for... See More

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Poetry & Drama

The Owl and the Nightingale

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(89 reviews)

Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy... See More

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Women's Fiction

The White Stuff

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(7 reviews)

Abbie Fenton wants a baby. Her husband Felix, not unaware of the thunderous ticking of Abbie's biological clock, wants to oblige but their home has still to be blessed. Cue the usual round of doctors, tests, probes and scans... See More

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Poetry & Drama

The Unaccompanied

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(62 reviews)

'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday Times After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Pearl

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(61 reviews)

Simon Armitage's acclaimed version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This new work is an entrancing allegorical tale... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Walking Home

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(686 reviews)

In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border... See More

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Short Stories

Flypaper (Comma Singles)

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Taken from the pamphlet Leeds Stories 2, the second in a series of small short story anthologies celebrating Leeds writing, published by Comma in 2004. See More

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Anthologies & Literature Collections

Odes For John Keats

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(1 review)

In 1819 John Keats composed most of the poems for which he is best remembered and most loved today, including his great Odes. In 2019, to mark the bicentenary of Keats' extraordinarily creative year, this new volume features... See More

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