Still: A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield - Hardcover

Armitage, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1911253131 ISBN 13: 9781911253136

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Armitage lives in Yorkshire, has taught at universities in this country and the United States, and is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He has published nine full-length collections of poetry, including Selected Poems and Seeing Stars, as well as notable translations of medieval verse including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has published two novels and three works of non-fiction; Walking Home - the prose account of his walk along the Pennine Way as a latter-day troubadour was a Sunday Times bestseller. Armitage also writes extensively for radio, television and film, is a regular broadcaster and presenter with the BBC, is the lyricist and singer with the band the Scaremongers, and has written several theatre pieces including dramatisations of both the Odyssey and the Iliad. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, most recently the Keats-Shelley Prize and the Cholmondeley Award, and in 2010 was honoured with the CBE for services to poetry. http://www.simonarmitage.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911253131
• ISBN 13: 9781911253136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80