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A collection of poems by the young British poet features language and rhythms drawn from Pennine, the northern English village where he lives.

By Simon Armitage

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9781852240783 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1990, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems by the young British poet features language and rhythms drawn from Pennine, the northern English village where he lives.

Penguin Book of Poetry: From Britain and Ireland Since 1945

Product Description: An anthology of poetry published in Britain and England in the half-century since World War II. Poets include Edwin Muir, Kate Clanchy and the American-born T.S Eliot and Sylvia Plath.

By Simon Armitage

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9780670883257 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: An anthology of poetry published in Britain and England in the half-century since World War II.

The Poetry Quartets

By Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Glyn Maxwell

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781852244682 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

Eclipse/Friendly Fire

In the first of these two plays, a group of English teenagers investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl during an eclipse and, in the second, conflicts develop among friends as they face their sexuality. (view table of contents)

By Simon Armitage and Peter Gill

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9780748742905 | Nelson Thornes, February 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In the first of these two plays, a group of English teenagers investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl during an eclipse and, in the second, conflicts develop among friends as they face their sexuality.

Landmarks: A Survey

Product Description: Landmarks celebrates the work of Fay Godwin, one of the UK’s most respected and influential photographers. Drawing on the whole body of her photographic practice, it includes literary portraits, humorous snapshots, and rural and urban landscapes, as well as the intimate series of color images, Glassworks, that marks the most recent evolution of her vision...read more

By Simon Armitage, Fay Godwin and Roger Taylor

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9781899235735 | Dewi Lewis Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Landmarks celebrates the work of Fay Godwin, one of the UK’s most respected and influential photographers.

Barbara Hepworth: Centenary

Product Description: Barbara Hepworth was one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century and one of the most successful women artists of her time.Published to commemorate the centenary of her birth, this beautifully illustrated book accompanies exhibitions at Tate St...read more

By Simon Armitage (editor), Sophie Bowness (editor), David Lewis (editor), Peter Murray (editor) and Chris Stephens (editor)

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9781854374790 | Tate Gallery Pubn, September 1, 2003, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Barbara Hepworth was one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century and one of the most successful women artists of her time.

The White Stuff

So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up in a make-or-break search for family, identity and meaning. And little do they know quite where the journey will take them

By Simon Armitage

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9780141010441 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 30, 2005), cover price $18.05 | About this edition: So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is.

Jerusalem

By Simon Armitage

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9780571216666 | Gardners Books, November 17, 2005, cover price $16.20

Homer's Odyssey

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this is an adaptation of Homer's epic. This title presents 'Odyssey' as a series of dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; between subtle Odysseus and a range of shape-shifting adversaries.

By Simon Armitage

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9780571229352 | Gardners Books, May 4, 2006, cover price $26.05 | About this edition: Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this is an adaptation of Homer's epic.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Narrates the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder. The knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide, Gawain dutifully sets forth.

By Simon Armitage

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9780571223275 | Gardners Books, January 4, 2007, cover price $22.90 | About this edition: Narrates the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging one of their number to a wager.

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9780571223299 | Gardners Books, March 6, 2008, cover price $14.10

Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art

By Simon Armitage

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9781871480627 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2008, cover price $58.20

Out of the Blue

By Simon Armitage

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9781904634584 | Enitharmon Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $14.95

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Library Edition

Product Description: The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager...read more

By Simon Armitage (trans)

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9781605146065 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, February 15, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition.

Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic

By Simon Armitage

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9780393330816, titled "The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic" | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2008), cover price $14.95

Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid

By Simon Armitage

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Hardcover:

9780307268419 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 2, 2008), cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780887847615 | House of Anansi Pr, March 30, 2007, cover price $18.95

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation

A poetic translation of the classic Arthurian story is an edition in alliterative language and rhyme of the epic confrontation between a young Round Table hero and a green-clad stranger who compels him to meet his destiny at the Green Chapel.

By Simon Armitage

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9780393060485 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A poetic translation of the classic Arthurian story is an edition in alliterative language and rhyme of the epic confrontation between a young Round Table hero and a green-clad stranger who compels him to meet his destiny at the Green Chapel.

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9780393334159 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 2, 2008), cover price $14.95

The Motorway Service Station As a Destination in Its Own Right

By Simon Armitage

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9781906613150 | Pmplt edition (Gardners Books, March 8, 2010), cover price $6.20

Seeing Stars: Poems

By Simon Armitage

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Hardcover:

9780307594839 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 2, 2011, cover price $25.00

The Death of King Arthur

By Simon Armitage

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Hardcover:

9780571288137 | Signed edition (Gardners Books, January 5, 2012), cover price $20.05

The Shout: Selected Poems

Collects poems written by a British poet during the past three decades that consider such topics as yard work, politics, the fidelity of dogs, and the negotiations of lovers, and includes numerous recent poems.

By Simon Armitage

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Hardcover:

9780151011186 | Houghton Mifflin, April 4, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Collects poems written by a British poet during the past three decades that consider such topics as yard work, politics, the fidelity of dogs, and the negotiations of lovers, and includes numerous recent poems.

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9780375712067 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 5, 2012), cover price $18.00

Walking Home

Product Description: 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 side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards the Yorkshire village where he was born...read more

By Simon Armitage

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9780571249886 | Gardners Books, July 5, 2012, cover price $28.75 | About this edition: In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way.

The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation