Book of Matches (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Book of Matches (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the 'Book of Matches' which are sonnets, 'Becoming of Age' and 'Reading the Bans', a series of poems about Armitage's

Poetry of Birds - edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Homer's Odyssey (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own

Universal Home Doctor (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

'The Universal Home Doctor' is Simon Armitage's most personal collection of poems yet. The poems journey across the globe but are ultimately set against the most intimate of landscapes - the human

Magnetic Field - The Marsden Poems (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

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

Walking Home (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your

Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to

Walking Away (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, the author tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (Armitage Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own

Last Days of Troy (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus's return from the Trojan War memorably to

Unaccompanied (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

'A writer who has had a game-changing influence on his contemporaries.' Guardian'Armitage is that rare beast: a poet whose work is ambitious, accomplished and complex as well as popular.' Sunday Telegraph'The best poet of his generation.' Craig Raine,

Benefit of Hindsight - Simon Serrailler Book 10 (Hill Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Complete European Football Championships 1958-2000 (Karsdorp Dirk)(Paperback / softback)

This book contains a complete match-by-match statistical record of the European Football Championship from 1958 to 2000. It details every game played (including all qualifiers and play-offs) from the very first game in the competition in 1958 up to and including the Final of the 2000 series held in

Complete World Cup 2015-2018 (Mantz Gabriel)(Paperback / softback)

This book contains a complete match-by-match statistical record of the2018 FIFA World Cup competition. Comprising complete match statisticsfor every game in the qualifiers and Final tournament played betweenthe years of 2015 and

Big Ideas for Little Philosophers: Equality with Simone de Beauvoir (Armitage Duane)(Board book)

Anatomy of England - A History in Ten Matches (Wilson Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

'[A] thought-provoking reappraisal of ten key games in England's football history ... this book should be required reading for all future England squads' INDEPENDENT ON

Zoom! (Armitage Simon)(Paperback)

Creates a muscular but elegant language of the author's own slangy, youthful, up to the minuet jargon and vernacular of his native Northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nouns and the benefit of blinkered

Still (Armitage Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Simon Armitage has been commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers' Centre Norwich to write a sequence of poems in response to 26 panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme chosen from archives at Imperial War

All Points North - the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - this title explores growing up and being

Vertical Art - Oxford Lectures (Armitage Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Armitage tries to identify a 'common sense' approach to an artform that can lend itself to grand statements and vacuous

Lot of Hard Yakka (Hughes Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the

Simon Armitage, Flit(Pevná vazba)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Armitage Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in