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Zoom! by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Zoom! 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Kid 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 Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday TimesAfter more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20A 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... -
Pearl by Simon Armitage 9780571302963
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl 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... -
Still by Simon Armitage 9781911253136
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.64Simon Armitage - poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University - has been commissioned by 14-18 Now to write a sequence of poems in response to photographs (aerial,... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.86SHORTLISTED 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 Away by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.33Not 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... -
Blossomise by Simon Armitage 9780571388417
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.44** 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... -
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Originally 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... -
Walking Home by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.33One 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... -
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.71Simon 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,... -
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Short 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... -
Dwell Simon Armitage 9780571394470
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.20This 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... -
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The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage 9780141027111 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.37A 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... -
New Cemetery by Simon Armitage 9780992946036
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62A 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... -
Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage 9781904634584
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.14The 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... -
New Cemetery Simon Armitage 9780571357338
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection.The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal... -
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage 9780571357307
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26SHORTLISTED 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... -
Simon Armitage by Ian Gregson 9781844717675
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60This book is designed to introduce Simon Armitage to those studying him at school and university, and is built around detailed and accessible readings of his most important poems. It contains the... -
Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage 9781907587306
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.29The 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... -
The Owl and the Nightingale Simon Armitage 9780571382859
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for PoetryIn this 'graceful, elegant translation' (Guardian), Poet Laureate Simon Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the Middle English tale with... -
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98By the Poet LaureateThe 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... -
The Last Days of Troy by Simon Armitage
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the... -
Book of Matches by Simon Armitage 9780571169825
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'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... -
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Over 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... -
The Shout: Selected Poems by Simon Armitage 9780375712067
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712067Author Simon ArmitageFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Preserved 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... -
Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems by Simon Armitage
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.44The 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... -
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.06'[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' Oxford... -
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those 'private,... -
A Vertical Art: On Poetry by Simon Armitage 9780691233109
Booksplease Price: $28.83From 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... -
New Cemetery: Poems by Simon Armitage 9780593804018
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $21.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593804018Author Simon ArmitageFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred... -
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage 9780571334971
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.33Over 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... -
Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage 9781631496684
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.70Originating 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... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780571340163
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge . . .This story, first told in... -
Pearl: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage 9781631492549
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.74One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his "compulsively readable" translations (New York Times Book Review)... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.27One 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... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393532494
Booksplease Price: $11.98Simon Armitage's "compulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version" (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers "a brilliantly well-tuned modern... -
Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics by Simon Armitage 9780571377619
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises - most recently...