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quirky tributes to the creatures of the natural world to anguished poems about breath and breathlessness in times of coronavirus
October 2018
Paperback Edition
Inspired by Walt Whitman
In this way the stowaway’s story and the telling of it merge in a fragmented
The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage George Szirtes quirky tributes to the creaturesFollowing his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and
