Simon Armitage: New Cemetery, Gebunden
New Cemetery
- Poems
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- Verlag:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 01/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593804018
- Artikelnummer:
- 12276124
- Umfang:
- 112 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 304 g
- Maße:
- 213 x 149 mm
- Stärke:
- 9 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 20.1.2026
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
From the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, a poem sequence that considers our use of the land that surrounds him, and recounts the personal tales of beauty and loss that play out on it
A few years ago, in the poet's home county of West Yorkshire, the Local Authority began converting a series of cow fields near his home into a new cemetery. As the graveyard takes shape, its presence on the brow of the hill casts a lengthening shadow over the imagination and enlivens the poet's landscape, both inner and outer. These poems, in regular, cascading tercets, sparked into being as he daily walked the site, with moorlands rising beyond it and the wind turbines of Brontë country to the north. Eventually the muddy construction scene gives way to fresh headstones and mown lawns, and, during the COVID-19 lockdown, the spectacle of gravediggers in hazmat suits. The poet retreats to write in his garden shed, charting his losses, conversing fruitfully with the dead, and engaging the world in the perilous present.
The sharply observed lyrics in New Cemetery --each fancifully named for a species of moth, a creature whose numbers the poet sees dwindling across a lifetime of night walks--remind us to turn a cool eye on the doings of man, and yet to embrace all we love while we still can, as "Time, what else," stands "propped in a corner / like a cricket bat."
Biografie
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.