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. Among his collections of poetry are Kid, Book of Matches, The Universal Home Doctor, Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid and Seeing Stars. His acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2007.
42 Ebooks von Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
When the mysterious Green Knight arrives unbidden at the Round Table one Christmas, only Gawain is brave enough to take up his challenge . . . This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most …
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€11.27
Simon Armitage: Seeing Stars
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, …
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€8.75
Simon Armitage: Kid
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 …
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€8.73
Simon Armitage: Book of Matches
'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice …
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€11.26
Simon Armitage: The Dead Sea Poems
Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation.The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'. …
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€9.96
Simon Armitage: The Universal Home Doctor
As the title implies, Simon Armitage“s flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the …
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Simon Armitage: Cloudcuckooland
From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a powerful Russian telescope. The sequence of …
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€10.38
Simon Armitage: Homer“s Odyssey
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect …
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€11.22
Simon Armitage: Death of King Arthur
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 …
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€8.75
Simon Armitage: Walking Home
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other …
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€11.21
Simon Armitage: Walking Away
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a …
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€10.00
Simon Armitage: Pearl
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 …
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€8.71
Simon Armitage: Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014
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 …
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€11.25
Simon Armitage: Last Days of Troy
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 …
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€11.25
Simon Armitage: Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead
A high-ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a diplomatic mission to Istanbul. When his trip ends up in a bar-room brawl, he becomes Europe's most wanted man overnight. …
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Simon Armitage: Unaccompanied
'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 …
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€11.22
Simon Armitage: Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic
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 …
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€13.73
Simon Armitage & Simon Armitage and Sue Roberts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
When the mysterious Green Knight arrives unbidden at the Round Table one Christmas, only Gawain is brave enough to take up his challenge . . . This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most …
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€12.45
Simon Armitage: Out of the Blue
This book brings together three verse form pieces each of which was created to be part of a broader form. ‚Out of the Blue‘ itself is a powerful, award-winning, poem-film created five years after the …
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€9.38
Simon Armitage: Gig
‚Extremely funny‘ Sunday Telegraph _____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex’n’drugs, or the rock’n’roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he …
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€9.49
Simon Armitage: All Points North
‚A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory‘ Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged …
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Simon Armitage: White Stuff
Abbie Fenton wants a baby. Her husband Felix, not unaware of the thunderous ticking of Abbie’s biological clock, wants to oblige but their home has still to be blessed. Cue the usual round of …
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€8.99
Simon Armitage: Poetry of Birds
A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________’Some of the most ethereal verse ever written‘ Sunday Telegraph ‚A …
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€14.99
Simon Armitage: Magnetic Field
The large village of Marsden, West Yorkshire not only was home to Simon Armitage's beginnings as writer, but has continued as a vital presence throughout his works: from his very first pamphlet, …
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€11.22
Simon Armitage: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander
“A medieval romance…but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.… I couldn’t pu …
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Simon Armitage: Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey
Shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Nonfiction
Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagin …
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€15.99
Simon Armitage: The Story of the Iliad: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic and the Last Days of Troy
Award-winning poet Simon Armitage dramatizes the story of Troy, animating this classic epic for a new generation of readers. Following his highly acclaimed dramatization of the Odyssey, Simon Armitag …
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€12.99
Pearl: A New Verse Translation
Winner • PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
From the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a spellbinding new translation of this classic allegory of grief and consolation …
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€14.99
Simon Armitage: Vertical Art
This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his 'conscientious and often amusingly self-conscious tenure' (TLS) as Oxford University …
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€11.27
Simon Armitage: Owl and the Nightingale
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage …
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€16.23
Simon Armitage: Approaches to Learning and Teaching Geography Digital Edition
A subject-specific guide for teachers to supplement professional development and provide resources for lesson planning. This Digital edition of Approaches to learning and teaching Geography is the …
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€24.35
Simon Armitage: Vertical Art
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry today In A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly …
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€36.28
Simon Armitage: Owl and the Nightingale
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem The Owl and the Nightingale, one …
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€31.21
Kevin Cummins: Telling Stories
A Rough Trade Book of the Year’No one has captured the look of alternative UK music over the past half a century more tellingly than Kevin Cummins.‘ – Simon Armitage’Kevin Cummins is a true master in …
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€3.99
Simon Armitage: Zoom!
Simon Armitage’s debut collection Zoom! launched his meteoric rise to poetic stardom in 1989. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award, it was a Poetry Book Society Choice. This ebook edition …
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€12.71
Simon Armitage: Hansel & Gretel
Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here …
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€16.27
Frantic Assembly & Lavery Bryony Lavery: Connections 500
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of …
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€24.79
Frantic Assembly & Lavery Bryony Lavery: Connections 500
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of …
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€24.78
