
Kid
Simon Armitage(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 4. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-571-20245-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.
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Export - FF Classics (Export)
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 112 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
70 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-20245-4 (9780571202454)
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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014), The Unaccompanied (2017) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He also writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and awarded a CBE for services to poetry.