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'Armitage creates a muscular but elegant language of his own out of slangy, youthful, up-to-the-minute jargon and the vernacular of his native northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nous and the benefit of unblinkered experience... to produce poems of moving originality.' Peter Reading, Sunday Times; 'Armitage writes with wit and feeling about experiences and conditions which poetry often turns its back on.' Jamie McKendrick, Independent; 'Of the fresh faces that have enlivened poetry over the last half-dozen years, none has loomed larger or fresher than that of Simon Armitage.' Mick Imlah, Vogue
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This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage's work as well as offering a timely retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems includes work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to the poem commissioned for the Millennium, Killing Time.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Great for starters,
This review is from: Selected Poems of Simon Armitage (Paperback)
I became interested in Simon Armitage via the Tom McRae album, Just like Blood, so when I searched for a volume of Simon Armitage poetry this is what I found. I have discovered my favourite poet here. I love many of the poems but my favourites are from Book of Matches and The Dead Sea Poems, both of which I now have firmly rooted in my growing poetry collection. I Say I Say I Say from The Dead Sea Poems is my absolute favourite, no doubt about it. This volume is fantastic for anyone who is curious about Simon Armitage, trust me, it will not be a disappointment when it arrives through the letter box.
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Simon Armitage used to be a social worker, now he's a world class poet. A `kid' from Huddersfield who manages in these poems to create a kind of magic, an effortless-seeming cornucopia of words that both thrill and caution, cauterise and twist in the gut. He has his magical gifts wrapped up with newspaper and barbed wire, his images are street-level, sarky, litanies of lives and living. Poems angry and uncouth, like their subjects, or down in the political morass - take this for instance, a verse from 'Lines Thought to Have Been Written on the Eve of the Execution of a Warrant for His Arrest':
Down Birdcage Walk in riots or wartime we will not hear of her hitching her skirt or see for ourselves that frantic footwork, busy like a swan's beneath the surface. But quickly our tank will stop in its tracks; they'll turn the turret lid back like a stone; inside, our faces set like flint, her name cross-threaded in the barrels of our throats. No guess needed as to whom that refers. 'To His Lost Lover' may be the best poem ever about a love affair that wasn't, and 'A Week And A Fortnight' is like a glimpse into uncovered lives only ever read about in shocking headlines. There is a certain slickness, something of a flash, urgent, disregard to some of this work. Perhaps evidence of the craft that goes into poetry-making is missing? If so, it's as it should be. Something especially in the internal rhythms, the beautiful power of the enjambments. Though I feel this is only because it reads effortlessly, and is so blindingly apposite. These lines below from 'A Book of Matches' are haunting: Tonight I'm blank, burnt out, parked in the garage with the engine running, in the dark. The ones who know me hold me at arm's length, the others want to see me dead. Not yet. I tear the last match from the book, fetch it hard and once across the windscreen. In the glass I'm taken with myself, caught in the act - conducting light, until the heat licks up against my thumb and fingertips, unlocks my hand, gives me a start, trips something in the flashbulb of my heart.
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Really Good Selection Here,
This review is from: Selected Poems of Simon Armitage (Kindle Edition)
If you are in the market for enjoyable and accessible poems that aren't too complex and have a natural air to them then I would say give this a go as well as the collections In the Flesh and Rhyme and Reason.
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