Gilgamesh
Author: Simon Armitage Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd ISBN 9780571357246 Published: October 8, 2026 The Poet Laureate’s exhilarating verse translation of the ancient epic poem captures its timeless and immersive power. Gilgamesh originated in Ancient Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago, yet its themes of power, loyalty, love and loss resound with contemporary relevance. The eponymous demigod […]
Human Geography
Author: Simon Armitage Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN 9780571405787 Published Date: June 4, 2026 A signed limited edition of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first ever poetry publication Human Geography was Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first-ever poetry pamphlet, published in 1986 when he was twenty-three years old. It was a time for him of experiment and potential […]
New Cemetery
Author: Simon Armitage Publisher: Faber & Faber Published Date: September 25, 2025 New Cemetery is the highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection from the Poet Laureate. The conversion of a local beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West […]
Dwell
Author: Simon Armitage Publisher: Faber & Faber Published Date: May 9, 2025 This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history […]
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.