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Paper Aeroplane Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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. Now, twenty-five years on, Simon Armitage's reputation as one of the nation's most ...Show more
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage; Sue Roberts
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Paper Aeroplane' is the author's own selection from across a quarter-century of work, from his debut to the latest, uncollected work. Drawing upon all of his award-winning poetry collections, including 'Kid', 'Book of Matches', 'The Universal Home Doctor' and 'Seeing Stars', this generous selection pro ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought ...Show more
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 across ...Show more
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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.
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language. Simon Armitage's prizewinning version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years ...Show more
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Deals with the warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas.
The Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
"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 poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this ...Show more
Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
‘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 poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this m ...Show more
Walking Away by Simon Armitage, Sue Roberts
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his best-seller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In Walking Awa ...Show more