Never Good with Horses - Assembled Lyrics

Informationen zum Autor Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020), Blossomise (2024) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy , performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate. Klappentext The volume's 'Intro' charts these projects and the blurred origins of ritualised language, while its 'Outro' offers contextualising notes and anecdotal insights. Never Good with Horses further demonstrates the rich range of Armitage's repertoire and celebrates his ear for the music of language, harnessed here for the page. Vorwort The first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate's lyric output. Zusammenfassung The volume's 'Intro' charts these projects and the blurred origins of ritualised language, while its 'Outro' offers contextualising notes and anecdotal insights. Never Good with Horses further demonstrates the rich range of Armitage's repertoire and celebrates his ear for the music of language, harnessed here for the page.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Armitage , Simon Armitage
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2023
• EAN: 9780571377619
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37761-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Singing, making music; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Classical, opera, operetta, musical; POETRY / General, MUSIC / Printed Music / General, Poetry by individual poets, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, Poetry / poems by individual poets