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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)
24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
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
Magnetic Field by Simon Armitage
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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, twenty-five years on, Simon Armitage's reputation as one of the nation's most ...Show more
Pearl by Simon Armitage
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
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
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
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language. Simon Armitage's prizewinning version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years ...Show more
The Last Days of Troy by Simon Armitage
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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
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.
Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
‘The most popular English poet since Larkin.’ Sunday Times After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage’s eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this m ...Show more
Walking Away by Simon Armitage, Sue Roberts
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his best-seller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In Walking Awa ...Show more