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Simon Armitage is the author of eleven previous books of poetry, including Zoom!, a Poetry Society Book Choice. He is also the author of two novels, the best-selling memoir All Points North, a new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and most recently, The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, a Forward Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in West Yorkshire and is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $25.00
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.
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