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1	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist Following in the tradition of Seamus Heaney's reworking of "Beowulf," Armitage, one of England's leading poets, has produced a virtuoso new translation of the 600-year-old Arthurian story with both clarity and verve. see all copies from $4.77! new only from $7.87! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist In this new verse adaptation, Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly companions; and between subtle Odysseus and a range of shape-shifting adversaries. see all copies from $2.25! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ted Hughes : poems more books like this by Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage add to wishlist In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work. see all copies from $4.49! new only from $6.01! \| first editions
4	Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist From one of the most important British poets at work today comes a brilliant new collection that meditates on human battles past and present, on youth and age, on monsters and underdogs, on the life of nations and the individual heart. In "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid," we meet a writer who speaks naturally, and with frankness and ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $10.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist "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 intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the ... see all copies from $3.22! new only from $10.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Book of matches more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist This is a study of the ideas and creative forces that went into shaping the language of 20th-century music. The author's argument is based on a consideration of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, during the course of which he makes forays into the related arts. see all copies from $12.94! new only from $12.94!
7	The Dead Sea poems more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist A collection of poems in which questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, mingle with more mundane considerations, such as the problems of owning a dog, and the vicissitudes of the job market. Simon Armitage was the 1993 "Sunday Times" Young Writer of the Year. see all copies from $5.70! new only from $11.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Kid by Simon Armitage add to wishlist This collection of poems includes the themes of domestic tension, law and order, submerged and exploding violence, and the anarchic strain in the human psyche. Simon Armitage is the author of "Zoom!". see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	King Arthur in the East Riding (Pocket Penguins S. ) by Simon Armitage add to wishlist In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. King Arthur in the East Riding is a brilliant selection of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.54!
10	The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage add to wishlist "The Universal Home Doctor" is Simon Armitage's most personal collection of poems yet. The poems journey across the globe but are ultimately set against the most intimate of landscapes - the human body. see all copies from $3.98! new only from $17.86!
11 view cover	Homer's Odyssey more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist It took ten years for the Greeks to achieve victory at Troy, and for a further ten years Odysseus has been heading home, his journey dogged by perilous storms and treacherous landfalls. Now the Gods have decided it is time for the wandering hero to find Ithaca, before his faithful wife Penelope is forced to marry again. But angry Poseidon is ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $18.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Landmarks: A Survey more books like this by Fay Godwin, Roger Taylor, MD, Simon Armitage (Introduction by) add to wishlist Landmarks is a glorious celebration of the work of Fay Godwin, one of the UK's most respected and influential photographers. Drawing on the whole body of her photographic practice of the last thirty years, it includes literary portraits, humorous snapshots, and rural and urban landscapes, as well as the intimate series of colour images, Glassworks ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $28.11! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage add to wishlist As the title implies, Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and passionate, the poems range from the rain forests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist. Simon Armitage more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core. And about a place, the village of Marsden in west Yorkshire, where he can stand and look out across a huge circumference of inspiration and influence: Joy Division, the Smiths and The Fall to the west, the ... see all copies from $5.92! new only from $11.00!
15 view cover	The Shout: Selected Poems more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist Simon Armitage is one of Britain's most respected poets. He is considered Philip Larkin's successor in both the easy brilliance of his verse and the national acclaim he has received. His subjects have ranged from yardwork to politics, from the fidelity of dogs to the negotiations of lovers. A selection of poetry that is wry, unpretentious, and ... see all copies from $9.66! new only from $18.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Out of the Blue: A New Collection by Simon Armitage add to wishlist The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9.11 attacks on America. It won the 2006 ... see all copies from $12.52! new only from $12.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Zoom by Simon Armitage add to wishlist Creates a muscular but elegant language of the author's own slangy, youthful, up to the minuet jargon and vernacular of his native Northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nouns and the benefit of blinkered experience. see all copies from $7.24! new only from $21.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Not Dead by Simon Armitage add to wishlist see all copies from $9.66! new only from $9.66!
19	Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu more books like this by Vikram Seth add to wishlist In this brief volume, Vikram Seth provides new translations of many of the great poems by three of China's masters. see all copies from $8.97! first editions
20 view cover	Eclipse more books like this by Simon Armitage, Peter Gill, National Theatre (Great Britain) add to wishlist Armitage's "Eclipse", written for a cast of 7, is set on a Cornish beach in August 1999 where a strange girl appears among a group of friends. Gill's "Friendly Fire" is for a cast of 10. The play is an exploration of the way "useless" young men are sent off to fight courageously. see all copies from $13.55! new only from $13.55!
21	Xanadu more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist see all copies from $38.89! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Killing Time more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist In this 1000-line poem, the manic countdown to 1000 years of history reaches its climax, with the last 12 months spooling past like newsreel. It is a vision full of humorous and bleaker possibilities, which ranges forward and back through time and space, mixing and matching as it goes. see all copies from $25.00! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Mister Heracles after Euripides by Simon Armitage add to wishlist What is the greatest atrocity a man can commit? What do we mean by hero? These are questions in Euripides' "Heracles", tackled by Armitage in language that brings the play's contemporaneity into focus, without diminishing its historical portent. see all copies from $13.33! new only from $26.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	All points north more books like this by Simon Armitage add to wishlist A book about the North, Simon Armitage's North. Not Northumberland, or Humberside, or Newcastle, or even Lancashire - but that bit of Yorkshire where the M1 slashes across the M62, where Jarvis Cocker meets Geoffrey Boycott, Emily Bronte meets Ted Hughes, Peter Sutcliffe meets David Hockney. His subjects, described with affection, acerbicness, wit ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Penguin book of poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 more books like this by Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford add to wishlist An anthology of poetry published in Britain and Ireland in the half-century since World War II. Poets include Edwin Muir, Kate Clanchy and the American-born T.S Eliot and Sylvia Plath. see all copies from $62.34!

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