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Pearl by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem 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 ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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
Pocket Penguins : King Arthur in the East Riding by Simon Armitage
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Simon Armitage is one of Britain's finest poets, whose work is firmly rooted in the life and culture in his home County of Yorkshire. Penguin published Armitage's acclaimed collection of essays about the North,All Points North,in 1998 and King Arthur in the East Riding is a selection of five characteris ...Show more
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. It creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Simon 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, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short 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 complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the in ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved 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 time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of the earliest great stories of English literature. It narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who challenges the virtuous Gawain to a wager, re ...Show more
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Deals with the warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas.
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the Middle English debate poem in a new version by the Poet Laureate - now in paperback.