Family Lines - Poems About Parents and Parenthood

The perfect gift for births, christenings, Mother''s Day and Father''s Day: a universally appealing selection of poems about parenthood throughout the ages.>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Armitage, Rachel Bower
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.02.2026
• EAN: 9780571365043
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36504-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Family & relationships, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Poetry anthologies (various poets)