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Odyssey
A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic
Häftad, 2008
170 kr
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In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest …
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Häftad, 2008
188 kr
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One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot’s Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a …
Seeing Stars
Häftad, 2011
163 kr
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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, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain …
Zoom!
Häftad, 1989
152 kr
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Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1989 and was a Poetry Book Society Choice.The e-book edition of Zoom! incorporates audio files for 18 of the poems using recordings Simon Armitage made for Peter …
Dwell
Inbunden, 2025
130 kr
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WINNER OF THE HOLYER AN GOF PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR POETRYThis gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us.Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in …
Gig
Rock 'n' Roll Dreams in a Northern Town
Häftad, 2009
198 kr
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'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph_____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, …
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Häftad, 2009
166 kr
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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. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after Beowulf, the poem …
Book of Matches
Häftad, 2001
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
166 kr
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'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 everything that poetry should be.' Times Literary Supplement'The first poet …
Gilgamesh
Inbunden, 2026
190 kr
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Gilgamesh originated in Ancient Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago, yet its themes of power, loyalty, love and loss resound with contemporary relevance. The eponymous demigod tyrannically rules the kingdom of Uruk. To establish peace, the gods create his counterpart, the wild man Enkidu. The two …
New Cemetery
The new collection from the Poet Laureate
Inbunden, 2025
190 kr
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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection.The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his …
New Cemetery
The new collection from the Poet Laureate
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
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The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These …
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Inbunden, 2018
239 kr
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When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge . . .This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the …
Se stjärnor
Häftad, 2014
204 kr
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Vilken medlem i Beatles är panda? Hur ska en apotekare inte bete sig? Vad har landsortens konstelit för sig när ingen ser på? Här finns sagor som är skräckhistorier som är vackra ögonblick - allt med ett absolut gehör för det komiska. Se stärnor är en hybrid mellan prosapesi och novell.
Poetry of Birds
edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee
Häftad, 2011
190 kr
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A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A glorious collection of works old and new' Independent on Sunday 'Truly inexhaustible . . . to be …
All Points North
the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
Häftad, 2009
150 kr
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'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, …
Gig
Rock 'n' Roll Dreams in a Northern Town
E-bok, 2008
144 kr
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'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph_____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, …
All Points North
the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
E-bok, 2009
105 kr
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'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, …
White Stuff
E-bok, 2005
102 kr
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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 - all to no avail. So Abbie - adopted at birth - decides that if she can't …
Poetry of Birds
edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee
E-bok, 2009
170 kr
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A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A glorious collection of works old and new' Independent on Sunday 'Truly inexhaustible . . . to be …
Death of King Arthur
A New Verse Translation
Häftad, 2012
329 kr
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First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this magisterial new translation has finally given American readers the ability to experience the splendor …
Kid
Häftad, 2002
142 kr
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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.
Dead Sea Poems
Häftad, 2001
166 kr
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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 and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday …
Friendly Fire & Eclipse
Häftad, 2000
113 kr
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Six friends are interviewed by the police after the disappearance of Lucy Lime, the strange unnerving girl - 'I am a walking Universe, I am' - whom they met on the beach beneath the cliffs.Adie likes Gary who likes Shelley who likes Adie. Relationships are strained as they 'sort out what they can …
Jerusalem
Häftad, 2005
163 kr
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Radio Castle, the voice of Jerusalem. Your local news broadcast from the bed of housebound ex-fireman, John Edward. His son doesn't want to join the family business, and his wife is in love with the town's ex-policeman, but Radio Castle continues to broadcast despite everything life throws at John …
Universal Home Doctor
Häftad, 2004
166 kr
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"The Universal Home Doctor" is Simon Armitage's most personal collection of poems yet. The poems journey across the globe but are ultimately set against the most intimate of landscapes - the human body.
Ted Hughes
Häftad, 2004
130 kr
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of …
Homer's Odyssey
Häftad, 2007
166 kr
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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 voices of his generation.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
E-bok, 2008
148 kr
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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 beloved poems in the English tradition. Now, in Simon Armitage, the poem …
