"The Shout"
from Simon Armitage's
The Shout: Selected Poems
from Simon Armitage's
The Shout: Selected Poems
Simon Armitage:
Simon Armitage has published ten collections of poetry, for which he has won numerous awards and prizes. The Shout is the first collection of his poems to be published in the United States. He lives in Holmfirth, England. (Photo by Jason Bell)
About The Shout:
For years, Simon Armitage has been one of Britain's most beloved poets. This, the first book of his poetry to be published in the United States, collects his work from the past three decades.
His is an original and constantly inventive voice that moves easily between the everyday and the surreal – from yardwork to politics, from a modern-day Crusoe marooned among office buildings to a creature new to science, "a man with a golf ball heart." The energy of his poetry's rhythms and images, his edgy humor, his cool and supercharged language make Armitage a major poet of our times, and The Shout an important American debut.
Praise from the UK for Simon Armitage:
"Armitage creates a muscular but elegant language of his own out of slangy, youthful, up-to-the-minute jargon and the vernacular of his native northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition... and the benefit of unblinkered experience... to produce poems of moving originality."
— The Sunday Times
"His lyric virtuosity finds new holy ground to work on, tackling issues of creation and sacrifice in his deadpan mix of brilliance and hurt."
— Ruth Padel, Financial Times
by Simon Armitage
Harcourt, Inc.
Poetry Daily / Amazon.com
Selected books available by Simon Armitage:The Shout — Paperback
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