Blossomise
Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject.Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand-alone […]
The Cryosphere
Collected together in a one-off signed pamphlet edition, these Arctic poems speak to us from the front line of environmental tragedy. Available exclusively fromfaber.co.uk.
Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes
A dystopian verse retelling of the classic tale in a beautiful, illustrated edition. Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes will be performed at Shakespeare’s Glove in London from December 8, 2023 – January 7, 2024. For tickets, please check here.
LX
A signed limited edition pamphlet of new sonnets by the Poet Laureate on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In a signed, limited edition, to mark Simon Armitage’s birthday, LXcollects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces […]
Never Good with Horses
The first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate’s lyric output. In Simon Armitage’s work, there has always been a territory he identifies as ‘a twilight zone’ where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises – most recently with the ‘ambient post-rock’ band Land Yacht Regatta. Many of the lyrics collected here […]
Tribute
A sumptuous hardback edition containing three commemorative poems written by the Poet Laureate.
Queenhood
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
The 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 communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two […]
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
‘Poetry is not one thing but many, and long may that be the case – but the illusive golden standard remains an intensified version of language that offers the best opportunity for reflection and scrutiny while being ingeniously clear, effortlessly fluent, powerfully communicative, successful in its intentions, aware of its causes and effects, wide in […]
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems
Buy now 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 first poems. Decades on, that window continues […]