New Cemetery : The new collection from the Poet Laureate - Simon Armitage Genre:Poetry by individual poets strained year that follows

strained year that follows

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orphaned at birth

A virtuosic group portrait

tender stories of life among the birds

New Cemetery : The new collection from the Poet Laureate - Simon Armitage Genre:Poetry by individual poets strained year that followsPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. 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