Still

Name: Still
Brand: Enitharmon Press
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English

By (author): Simon Armitage

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 Museum, London. The Somme Offensive took place on the Western Front between July and November 1916, and is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British military history. Armitage has written thirty poems of between two and 20 lines that are versions of The Georgics by the Roman poet Virgil. Paired with black-and-white images that are a hundred years old, the contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of war to haunting effect. See more

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Dimensions: 320 x 250mm
Publication Date: 12 Jul 2016
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781911253136

About Simon Armitage

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