Kid
Author(s): Simon Armitage
"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 subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.
Product Information
One of six wonderful collections published in celebration of Faber's rich poetry heritage.
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was winner of one of the first Forward Prizes, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and television. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time, The Universal Home Doctor, Homer's Odyssey and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid. His acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2007.
General Fields
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- : Faber and Faber
- : Faber and Faber
- : 0.19
- : 01 May 2010
- : 206mm X 130mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 30 November 2010
- : books
Special Fields
- : Simon Armitage
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 821.914
- : 96