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New Cemetery

English · Hardback

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The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery . From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems - composed in short-lined tercets - reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland. As phases of lockdown come and go and the cemetery fills up with new ''residents'', Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.

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Authors Simon Armitage
Publisher Faber & Faber
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.09.2025
 
EAN 9780571357338
ISBN 978-0-571-35733-8
No. of pages 120
Dimensions 140 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Anthologies

POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry / poems by individual poets

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