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Informationen zum Autor Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections of poetry, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020) 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, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate. Klappentext A collection of poems from the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize! which has sold over 4500 copies. It focuses on conflicts within English society today. 'A masterpiece of restraint! passion! tenderness and elegy.' "Independent" Vorwort POET LAUREATE Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage - a new collection of poems from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Zusammenfassung Engaging above all with the matter of England in the here and now Simon Armitage focuses his attention on the conflicts within society today. The result is his wittiest! most alertly combative and impassioned collection to date.
