A thrilling new collection from the hugely acclaimed British poet Simon Armitage. With its vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, and tall tales, this absurdist, unreal exploration of modern society brings us a chorus of unique and unforgettable voices.
All are welcome at this twilit, visionary carnival: the man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home; the black bear with a dark secret; the woman who oversees giant snowballs in the freezer. 'My girlfriend won me in a sealed auction but wouldn't / tell me how much she bid,' begins one speaker; 'I hadn't meant to go grave robbing with Richard Dawkins / but he can be very persuasive,' another tells us. The storyteller behind this human tapestry has about him a sly undercover idealism: he shares with many of his characters a stargazing capacity for belief, or for being, at the very least, entirely 'genuine in his disbelief.' In these startling poems, with their unique cartoon-strip energy and air of misrule, Armitage creates world after world, peculiar and always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.
All are welcome at this twilit, visionary carnival: the man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home; the black bear with a dark secret; the woman who oversees giant snowballs in the freezer. 'My girlfriend won me in a sealed auction but wouldn't / tell me how much she bid,' begins one speaker; 'I hadn't meant to go grave robbing with Richard Dawkins / but he can be very persuasive,' another tells us. The storyteller behind this human tapestry has about him a sly undercover idealism: he shares with many of his characters a stargazing capacity for belief, or for being, at the very least, entirely 'genuine in his disbelief.' In these startling poems, with their unique cartoon-strip energy and air of misrule, Armitage creates world after world, peculiar and always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.
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Hardback Editions
August 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Seeing Stars: Poems Author(s): Simon Armitage ISBN: 0-307-59483-1 / 978-0-307-59483-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Seeing Stars Author(s): Simon Armitage ISBN: 0-571-27231-2 / 978-0-571-27231-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Seeing Stars Author(s): Simon Armitage ISBN: 0-571-24990-6 / 978-0-571-24990-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Seeing Stars Author(s): Simon Armitage ISBN: 0-571-24994-9 / 978-0-571-24994-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber & Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Seeing Stars. Simon Armitage Author(s): Simon Armitage ISBN: 0-571-24993-0 / 978-0-571-24993-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber & Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
August 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Seeing Stars Author(s): Simon Armitage Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
June 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Seeing Stars Author(s): Simon Armitage Publisher: Faber and Faber Poetry Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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