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Paperback. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 201 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571218608
ISBN
9780571218608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.44

Paperback. 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 marriage. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571169825
ISBN
9780571169825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. Shows how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion. Editor(s): Armitage, Simon. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571278725
ISBN
9780571278725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571229369
ISBN
9780571229369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Hardcover. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Dram"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
80
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
SKU
KHS0038544
ISBN
9780571215331
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 31.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Offers a collection that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. The author creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249947
ISBN
9780571249947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.95

Hardback. Simon Armitage - poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University - has been commissioned by 14-18 Now to write a sequence of poems in response to photographs (aerial, oblique and panoramic) of areas associated with the Battle of the Somme, which took place on the Western Front between July to November 1916. Num Pages: 80 pages, 12 images and 13 photographs. BIC Classification: DCF; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 251 x 15. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911253136
ISBN
9781911253136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.88

Paperback. A green knight on a green horse 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. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571223282
ISBN
9780571223282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Engaging with the matter of England in the here and now, the author focuses his attention on the conflicts within society. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571233267
ISBN
9780571233267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Presents the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from the most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus' return from the Trojan War memorably to life. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315109
ISBN
9780571315109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. This collection of poems includes the themes of domestic tension, law and order, submerged and exploding violence, and the anarchic strain in the human psyche. Simon Armitage is the author of "Zoom!". Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571166077
ISBN
9780571166077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. "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 body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571217267
ISBN
9780571217267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

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 experience. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852240783
ISBN
9781852240783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.26

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Propolis
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992946036
ISBN
9780992946036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Hardcover. The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. Simon Armitage composed six new poems on his Pennine walks and, with the help of Tom Lonsdale and letter-carver Pip Hall, found extraordinary, secluded sites and saw his words carved into stone. Num Pages: 109 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 246 x 13. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907587306
ISBN
9781907587306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds. Editor(s): Dee, Tim. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027111
ISBN
9780141027111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Divided in the three sections, this volume of poetry commemorates three significant anniversaries - 9/11 (2001), VE Day (1945) and the horrifying history of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The poems were originally commissioned by the BBC and Channel 5. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 104. 48 pages. Divided in the three sections, this volume of poetry commemorates three significant anniversaries - 9/11 (2001), VE Day (1945) and the horrifying history of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The poems were originally commissioned by the BBC and Channel 5. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight: 104.
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904634584
ISBN
9781904634584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.29

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KNH0002671
ISBN
9781907056499
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 11.72

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oliver Arts and Open Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981989174
ISBN
9780981989174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.90

127pp. Traduit de l'Islandais par Regis Boyer. French/Icelandic language
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Orphee/La Difference
Publication date
1994
SKU
KHS1016415
ISBN
9782729109431
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 20.99
€ 4.99

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