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A Country to Call Home by Lucy Popescu; Simon Armitage (Contribution by); Eoin Colfer (Contribution by); Michael Morpurgo (Contribution by); Chris Riddell (Contribution by); Kit de Waal (Contribution by)
Category: Anthologies
From the editor of A Country of Refugecomes an anthology of new writing on one of the defining issues of our time. Focusing on the fate of refugee children and young adults, it is aimed at children and adult readers alike, and features work from Michael Morpurgo, Eoin Colfer, Kit de Waal and Simon Armit ...Show more
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry
The current UK Poet Laureate's popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for. '[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or self-importance' - Oxfo ...Show more
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry
The current UK Poet Laureate's popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.
All Points North by Simon Armitage
Category: Biography and Memoir
"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 and being Northern. It's about humour, languag ...Show more
Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry & Plays
"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 Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals i ...Show more
Gig by Simon Armitage
Category: Biography Memoir
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. And about a place, the village of Marsden in west Yorkshire, where he can stand and look out across a huge circumference of inspiration and influence: Joy Divisio ...Show more
Hansel and Gretel by Simon Armitage; Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction
A dystopian verse retelling of the classic tale in a beautiful, illustrated edition.
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage; Homer
Category: Poetry
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues.
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
Category: Drama
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took ten years for the Greeks to achieve victory at Troy, and for a further ten years Odysseus has been heading home, his journey dogged by perilous storms and treacherous landfalls. Now the Gods have decided it is time ...Show more
Kid by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry
"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.