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Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
"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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Reading Level: very good
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues.
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
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
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
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.
Selected Poems: Simon Armitage by Simon Armitage; W. H. Auden; Sue Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage's work as well as offering a timely retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems includes work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
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Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | 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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
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: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Deals with the warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas.
The Poetry of Birds by Simon Armitage
$59.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. They are much watched and much loved, not least by poets. Bird poetry is as old as British poetry itself, and a remarkable number of poets have written poems about birds. Indeed some of the most famous poems in the language concern birds, from Ke ...Show more
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Engaging with the matter of England in the here and now, the author focuses his attention on the conflicts within society.
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