{"product_id":"new-cemetery","title":"New Cemetery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION •\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for \u003cem\u003eNew Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems - composed in short-lined tercets - reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs seasons come and go and the cemetery fills up with new 'residents', Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections have received numerous prizes and awards. He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers \u003cem\u003eAll Points North\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), \u003cem\u003eWalking Home\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eWalking Away\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). His theatre works include \u003cem\u003eThe Last Days of Troy\u003c\/em\u003e, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082172022941,"sku":"9780571357338","price":103.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9780571357338.jpg?v=1764064987","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/new-cemetery","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}