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  • New Cemetery

    Poems

    by Simon Armitage ...
    ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF THE YEAR FROM THE GUARDIAN AND THE OBSERVER • From the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, a poem sequence that considers our use of the land that surrounds him, and recounts the personal tales of beauty and loss that play out on itA few years ago, in the poet’s home county of West Yorkshire, the Local Authority began converting a series of cow fields near his home ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Vertical Art

    On Poetry

    by Simon Armitage ...
    From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    by Simon Armitage ...
    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 has found its perfect modern translator. Armitage's retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

    A Poet's Journey

    by Simon Armitage ...
    Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England.The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Owl and the Nightingale

    A New Verse Translation

    by Simon Armitage ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poemThe Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of the Iliad

    A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic and the Last Days of Troy

    by Simon Armitage ...
    Award-winning poet Simon Armitage dramatizes the story of Troy, animating this classic epic for a new generation of readers.Following his highly acclaimed dramatization of the Odyssey, Simon Armitage here takes on the fate of Troy, bringing Homer’s Iliad to life with refreshing imaginative vision. In the final days of the Trojan War, the Trojans and the Greeks are caught in a bitter stalemate. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Homer's Odyssey

    by Simon Armitage ...
    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. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gilgamesh

    A New Verse Translation

    A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Originating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king’s cruel tendencies. They face off in a violent ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Book of Matches

    by Simon Armitage ...
    '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 of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity . . . it is possible that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • All Points North

    the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

    by Simon Armitage ...
    '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, football to family to running away to Iceland - Simon Armitage explores growing up... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Fixed Format Layout

    by Simon Armitage ...
    Series Book 1 - Faber Voices
    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 has found its perfect modern translator. Armitage's retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Dead Sea Poems

    by Simon Armitage ...
    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 domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD