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Zoom! by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Zoom! 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... -
Kid by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Kid 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... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A 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... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.52SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in its own eccentric way, [The Owl and... -
Walking Home by Simon Armitage
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to... -
Dwell Simon Armitage 9780571394470
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.55This 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... -
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Originally 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... -
Cloudcuckooland by Simon Armitage 9780571224104
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a powerful Russian telescope. The sequence of... -
Blossomise by Simon Armitage 9780571388417
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81** A Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller **Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject.Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just... -
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.12Simon 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,... -
Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage 9781907587306
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. The terrain bears the deep scars of industrial... -
Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage 9781904634584
Booksplease Price: $12.53The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World... -
Book of Matches by Simon Armitage 9780571169825
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'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... -
New Cemetery by Simon Armitage 9780992946036
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A poet, at a desk, in a shed. A shed which is temple, bunker, study and look-out post all rolled into one.Not far away, in the surrounding West Yorkshire countryside, the local council have begun... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage 9780571357307
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in its own eccentric way, [The Owl and... -
Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems by Simon Armitage
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The Patriarchs: An Elegy' was written after Prince... -
The Shout: Selected Poems by Simon Armitage 9780375712067
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712067Author Simon ArmitageFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
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Kid by Simon Armitage 9780571166077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.02Kid 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... -
The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage 9780571217267
Booksplease Price: $12.37"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... -
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Kid by Simon Armitage 9780571202454 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $3.73Kid 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... -
The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage 9780571218608
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Preserved 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... -
The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage 9780571176007
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Simon 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'... -
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Over 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... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.83One 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... -
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Walking Home by Simon Armitage 9780571249893 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.93One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to... -
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Walking Away by Simon Armitage 9780571298365 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.61Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a... -
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage 9780571357383
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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage 9781631496684
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.19Originating 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... -
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid Simon Armitage 9780571233267
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Engaging above all with the matter of England in the here and now Simon Armitage focuses his attention on the conflicts within society today. The result is his wittiest, most alertly combative and... -
Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology III by Simon Armitage 9781800175198
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89An anthology celebrating the winner and shortlistees of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Winner Dillon Jaxx Shortlistees Will Fleming ... -
Hyphen: An Anthology of Short Stories by Poets by Simon Armitage 9781857547313
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $14.00What is the relationship between poetry and fiction? Can poets offer any insights to short story writers? In this unique publishing experiment, 20 of Britain's leading versifiers, including Sean... -
Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology II by Simon Armitage 9781800172241
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89The University of Leeds has a long tradition of engagement with poets, many of whom have been members of staff or creative writing fellows. Its Brotherton Library houses the archives of several... -
The Poetry of Simon Armitage: A Study Guide for GCSE Students by Tony Childs
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $6.11Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation. Since his first collection, Zoom, in 1989 he has published ten full-length collections of poetry, while also writing and presenting... -
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Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems by Simon Armitage 9780571381753 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.43The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions. 'The Patriarchs: An Elegy' was written after Prince... -
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51'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... -
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist - the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'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... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Smith
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.33It is New Year at Camelot and a mysterious green knight appears at King Arthur's court. Challenging the knights of the Round Table to a Christmas game, he offers his splendid axe as a prize to... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.88SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a... -
Pearl by Siân Hughes
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented...