Kid

Kid

by SimonArmitage (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: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 May 2010

ISBN 10: 0571259308
ISBN 13: 9780571259304
Book Overview: Kid by Simon Armitage is one of six wonderful collections published in celebration of Faber's rich poetry heritage.

Author Bio
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was winner of one of the first Forward Prizes, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and television. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time, The Universal Home Doctor, Homer's Odyssey and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid. His acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2007.