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The Poetry of Simon Armitage

Tony Childs

A STUDY GUIDE FOR GCSE STUDENTS.

Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation. Since his first collection Zoom (1989), he has ...

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.

Here ...

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel , including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between ...

Dart

Alice Oswald

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon.

Using these ...

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Wendy Cope

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest ...

Nil Nil

Don Paterson

Nil Nil , Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a ...

The Whitsun Weddings

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most ...

Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid

Simon Armitage

Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid engages with the matter of ‘Merrie England’, here and now. The poet’s preoccupation with utopias and new republics ...