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    The Owl and the Nightingale

    Simon Armitage

    A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem in a new version by the Poet Laureate - now in paperback.

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    Blossomise

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    A glorious collaboration between Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate and the illustrator Angela Harding, celebrating the transformations of Spring

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    The Unaccompanied

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    The eleventh single volume of poetry from one of the Britain’s most celebrated and influential contemporary poets, Simon Armitage - now in paperback.

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    Never Good with Horses

    Simon Armitage

    The first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate's lyric output.

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    Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey

    Simon Armitage (Oxford)

    Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England.

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    The Owl and the Nightingale

    Simon Armitage

    A wonderfully energetic and ribald version of what has been called 'the greatest early Middle English poem we have.' (Prospect)

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    The Owl and the Nightingale

    Simon Armitage

    From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem

    The Owl and…

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    Pearl

    Simon Armitage

    The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem

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    All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

    Simon Armitage

    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 - this…

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    Still

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    Simon 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…

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    Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014

    Simon Armitage

    The essential selection of poems from one of the UK’s foremost contemporary poets - now in poetry typographic front-list look.

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    Simon Armitage

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    Simon Armitage is one of the most compelling figures in contemporary literature, most conspicuously because of his charismatic style, but also because he has brought into poetry an irreverent, streetwise…

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    The Death of King Arthur

    Simon Armitage

    Simon Armitage’s sparkling translation of the legendary tale of King Arthur.

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    Flit Simon Armitage, Flit

    Flit is a newly commissioned and fully illustrated collection of 40 poems by Simon Armitage, who has been poet in residence throughout the Park’s 40th anniversary year.

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    Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey

    Simon Armitage (Oxford)

    Shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Nonfiction Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England.

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    The Story of the Iliad: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer?s Epic and the Last Days of Troy

    Simon Armitage (Oxford)

    Award-winning poet Simon Armitage dramatizes the story of Troy, animating this classic epic for a new generation of readers.

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    The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic

    Simon Armitage (Oxford)

    Armitage has given an ageless story new vigor, and has done it with style, wit and elegance. -Literary Review

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Simon Armitage (Oxford)

    Compulsively readable. … Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version. -Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review

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    The White Stuff

    Simon Armitage

    So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can’t have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up…

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    The Unaccompanied: Poems

    Simon Armitage

    A powerful new collection of poetry from the National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize

    In The Unaccompanied, Armitage gives voice to the people…

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    The Shout: Selected Poems

    Simon Armitage

    Originally published in hardcover: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co., 2005.

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    Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology II

    Anthology celebrating the winner, shortlistees & other contributors to the second Brotherton Poetry Prize, 2020-21 (presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre).

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    Hansel & Gretel

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    Tribute

    Simon Armitage

    The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for three significant royal occasions.

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    Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist - the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

    Simon Armitage

    Explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. This title includes stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls, and Yorkshire life and…

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    Zoom!

    Simon Armitage

    Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage’s meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1989.

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    Short and Sweet

    Simon Armitage

    A new decorative edition of this classic countdown of succinct verse introduced by one of Britain’s foremost contemporary poets

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    New Cemetery

    Simon Armitage

    A new collection from the one of the greatest contemporary English poets, published by Propolis, one of the smallest contemporary English publishers…

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    The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation

    Simon Armitage

    From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem

    The Owl and…

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    A Vertical Art: On Poetry

    Simon Armitage

    From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry today

    In A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a…

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    The Owl and the Nightingale

    Simon Armitage

    A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem, in a new version by the Poet Laureate.

    $40.99

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    Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems

    Simon Armitage

    A special ‘poetry of place’ edition to accompany Simon Armitage throughout his laureateship.

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    Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

    Simon Armitage

    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…

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Simon Armitage

    Christmas gift edition of Armitage’s hugely popular translation: with revised text, and colour illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

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    A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures

    Simon Armitage

    The current UK Poet Laureate’s popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.

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    A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures

    Simon Armitage

    The current UK Poet Laureate’s popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.

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    Pearl: A New Verse Translation

    Winner of the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation From the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of…

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    Approaches to Learning and Teaching Geography: A Toolkit for International Teachers

    Simon Armitage

    A subject-specific guide for teachers to supplement professional development and provide resources for lesson planning.

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    The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

    A new standard in the enterprise of bringing the past back into poetry. -Tom Shippey, Wall Street Journal

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    Pearl: A New Verse Translation

    Winner * PEN Award for Poetry in Translation From the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of grief and…

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    Jerusalem

    Simon Armitage,Sue Roberts

    His son doesn’t want to join the family business, and his wife is in love with the town’s ex-policeman, but Radio Castle continues to broadcast despite everything life throws at…

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    The Poetry of Simon Armitage: A Study Guide for GCSE Students

    Tony Childs

    The book examines Armitage’s work in just the ways that students need to think about it - in respect of how the poems are crafted in language and form, and…

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    The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee

    Simon Armitage

    Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according…

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    Cloudcuckooland

    Simon Armitage,Sue Roberts

    From 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.

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    Kid

    Simon Armitage,Sue Roberts

    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…

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    The Last Days of Troy

    Simon Armitage,Sue Roberts

    The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of…

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    The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead: Adapted for the Stage

    Simon Armitage,Sue Roberts

    A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul.

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    Seeing Stars

    Simon Armitage,Sue Roberts

    From the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes a striking new collection.

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