Simon Armitage

This text is the first major anthology published which surveys poetry from Britain and Ireland published in the half-century since the Second World War.

With an introduction by Simon Armitage, this book is an anthology arranged to show how the short poem (defined here as shorter than a sonnet) can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writing.

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. Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only thing certain is the unexpected.

'Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid' is Simon Armitage's wittiest, most alertly combative and impassioned collection to date.

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 of work in their own right. Some have been published - such as the 'Walking Home' and 'Walking Away' poems - but the majority has not, and together they cover an eclectic array of subjects including sculpture, the environment, travel,...

This selection offers a timely retrospective of the contemporary poetry of Simon Armitage, and is a perfect introduction to his work.

The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate events - the September 11 attacks, VE Day, and the Cambodian genocide.

From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core.

'Flit' is a newly commissioned and fully illustrated collection of 40 poems by Simon Armitage, poet in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in its 40th anniversary year.

A combination of verse from Simon Armitage and prose from Jeff Young lends a voice to the chain of events depicted on the famous Bayeux Tapestry. This production chronicles the history surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the ascension of Duke William of Normandy to the English throne. Harold, Duke of Wessex, takes the English throne, despite Edward the Confessor's wish that William Duke of Normandy should be his heir. Seeking retribution,...