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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: Children's Fiction
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
Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
Category: Gift
"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
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage; Homer
Category: Classics
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues.
Last Days of Troy by Simon Armitage
Category: Gift
Simon 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 Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer's Odyssey. The latter, originally a commission for BBC ...Show more
Magnetic Field by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry & Plays
Growing 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, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his ...Show more
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage; Sue Roberts
Category: Gift
'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
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage
Category: Gift
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, Armitage's reputation as one of the nation's most original, most respected and ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Category: Gift
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
Category: Gift
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 to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gaw ...Show more
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage
Category: Gift
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. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt' ...Show more