Kid (FF Classics)

Kid (FF Classics)

by Simon Armitage (Author), Sue Roberts (Author)

Synopsis

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: Export - FF Classics (Export)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Oct 1999

ISBN 10: 0571202454
ISBN 13: 9780571202454
Book Overview: Simon Armitage was awarded The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 1993.
Prizes: Winner of Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 1992.

Author Bio
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He also writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.