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Seeing Stars

Seeing Stars

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.
The Death of King Arthur

The Death of King Arthur

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed.
The Poetry of Birds

The Poetry of Birds

Simon Armitage

In this wonderful anthology poet Simon Armitage and birdwatching enthusiast Tim Dee gather together the best of the past and the present, including those famous poems but also many overlooked gems.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fixed Format Layout

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fixed Format Layout

Simon Armitage

. . This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most enthralling, dramatic and beloved poems in the English tradition. Now, in Simon Armitage, the poem has found its perfect modern translator.
The Dead Sea Poems

The Dead Sea Poems

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'.
The Dial

The Dial

Francis Fisher Browne

Small, Maynard & Co. $1.25. The House of Strange Secrets : A Detective Story. By A. Eric Bayly. 12mo,pp.262. E. P. Dutton
Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Raymond Waddington

96 Armitage, 'The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire,' 538; on the Western Design, see 536—46; and Robert Fallon, 'Cromwell, Milton, and the Western Design.' 97 For the textual history, see Shawcross, appendix, ...
Kid

Kid

Simon Armitage

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years.
The Not Dead

The Not Dead

Simon Armitage

'The Not Dead' is a short collection of poems originally aired on a Channel 4 documentary film of the same name, shown in the winter of 2007.
Book of Matches

Book of Matches

Simon Armitage

' Independent on Sunday 'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be.
Eclipse

Eclipse

Simon Armitage

In the first of these two plays, a group of English teenagers investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl during an eclipse and, in the second, conflicts develop among friends as they face their sexuality.
Ariel

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.
The Unaccompanied

The Unaccompanied

Simon Armitage

The Unaccompanied documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial ...
Virilio and Visual Culture

Virilio and Visual Culture

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John Armitage, Ryan Bishop. random yet increasingly submissive nature of our mediated everyday lives. 'In early 2010, in France', for example, Virilio recently informed Bernard Richard, 'the Milgram experiment of 1963 was repeated to reveal ...
Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

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Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Veronica Strong-Boag. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Matthew's Legacy (Victoria: Queen's Printer, 1995). See also Andrew Armitage, “Lost Vision: Children and the Ministry for Children and Families,” BC Studies 118 (Summer ...
Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy ...

Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy ...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY. Armitage, Susan, andElizabeth Jameson. TheWoman's West. Norman: Uof OklahomaP, 1987. Butler, AnneM. “Prostitution.” In Encyclopedia of Women in the American West. Ed. Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington.
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, ...

Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, ...

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Cynthia E. Orozco, “Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Mexican American Politics in the 1930s,” in Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the American Women's West, ed. Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage ( Norman: ...
Abeloff's Clinical Oncology Review

Abeloff's Clinical Oncology Review

John E. Niederhuber

John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, James H Doroshow, Michael B. Kastan , Joel E. Tepper ... JohnE. Niederhuber, MD To my wife, Nancy, for her love and support over the last four and ahalf decades,andto ourfourchildren and ten ...
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in ...

War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in ...

Ian Morris

Peter Abigail, Daron Acemoglu, David Armitage, Al Bergesen, Mat Burrows, Banning Garrett, Elhanan Helpman, Mike McCormick, Dick O'Neill, Jim Robinson, Peter Turchin, and Norman Vasu invited me to highly informative meetings and ...
Poetry Please: Love Poems

Poetry Please: Love Poems

Various Poets

... 1993) © Simon Armitage, reprintedby permission ofFaber &Faber Ltd EMILYBERRY: 'Letter to Husband' © Emily Berry, from DearBoy (Faber& Faber, 2013) reprinted by permission of the publisher JOHNBETJEMAN: 'In a Bath Teashop' and ...
Screen International Film and TV Year Book

Screen International Film and TV Year Book

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KERRY GARDNER ASSOCIATES PERSONAL MANAGEMENT NOEL GAY ARTISTS THE RICHARD ARMITAGE— NOEL GAY ORGANISATION 24 DENMARK STREET, LONDON, WC2H 8NJ DUNCAN HEATH ASSOCIATES Personal ...
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture

The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture

Nerina Rustomji

A group of scholars, including David Armitage, Dick Bulliet, kristen Gillespie, Geraldine Heng, Syed Akbar Hyder, Ayesha Jalal, Neil kamil, Jean Ma, Abd al- Razzaq Moaz, Laura Neitzel, Cindy Postma, Alan Segal, and Denise Spellberg ...
Darling

Darling

Frederic Raphael

It was all happening. “Diana?” “Yes. Who's that?” “I rang to congratulateyou.” “ Robert?” “Robert? Who's Robert?” “Who is that?” “I read you're about torollwith Maxim.” “That's notyou,Mai, is it?” “Robert! Mai!What afull lifeyoumust lead.” “ Miles?
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts ...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts ...

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Largo Dunster, Armitage v. Durrant v. Lawrence v. Scrocold Eades v. Vandeput Eagleton, Neatley v. Ealing, Inhabitants of, Rex v. Eaton, Brewer dem. Onslovv v. Eccles, Rex v. Eden, Paul v. 402 93 130 361 199 400 187 167 194 131 354 Edon  ...
Jackson Squared

Jackson Squared

Smallwood F. Robert

Smallwood F. Robert, F. Smallwood Robert F. Smallwood. Acclaim for,. ROBERT. SMALLWOOD'S. WRITING “Robert Smallwood writes in a feral style... unique & gutsy and what I call writing without a net!” -- Rex Reed, New York Observer ...
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014

Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014

Simon Armitage

Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014 is the author's own selection from across a quarter-century of work, from his debut to the latest, uncollected work.

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