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.
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 […]