Seeing stars
By: Simon Armitage
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780571249909; 9780571249947; 9780571249930
Subjects: Literature; English poetry
Description: Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only thing certain is the unexpected.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: The Christening --; title: An Accommodation --; title: The Cuckoo --; title: Back in the Early Days of the Twenty-first Century --; title: Michael --; title: I'll Be There to Love and Comfort You --; title: The English Astronaut --; title: Hop In, Dennis --; title: Upon Opening the Chest Freezer --; title: Seeing Stars --; title: Last Words --; title: My Difference --; title: The Accident --; title: Aviators --; title: 15:30 by the Elephant House --; title: An Obituary --; title: Knowing What We Know Now --; title: The Experience --; title: Collaborators --; title: Ricky Wilson Couldn't Sleep --; title: The Knack --; title: The Practical Way to Heaven --; title: To the Bridge --; title: Beyond Huddersfield --; title: Cheeses of Nazareth --; title: Show and Tell --; title: Upon Unloading the Dishwasher --; title: Poodles --; title: The Personal Touch --; title: The Last Panda --; title: Sold to the Lady in the Sunglasses and Green Shoes --; title: The War of the Roses --; title: A Nativity --; title: The Delegates --; title: The Overtones --; title: The Sighting of the Century --; title: The Crunch --; title: Bringing It All Back Home.