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- Book Synopsis
- Simon Armitage has been commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers' Centre Norwich to write a sequence of poems in response to 26 panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, London. The Somme Offensive took place on the Western Front between July and November 1916, and is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British military history. Armitage has written thirty poems of between two and 20 lines that are versions of The Georgics by the Roman poet Virgil. Paired with black-and-white images that are a hundred years old, the contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of war to haunting effect.
- About The Author
- Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield and was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in 2015. He has published over a dozen collections of poetry, including Paper Aeroplane - Selected Poems 1989 - 2014.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781911253136
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press, (12 July 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 74
- Weight
- 826 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 241 x 305 x 15 mm
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