As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the rainf
In the 1000-line poem Killing Time, the manic countdown to a thousand years of history reaches its climax, with the past twelve months spooling past like newsreel. In the Age of Communication, we find
This collection of poems includes the themes of domestic tension, law and order, submerged and exploding violence, and the anarchic strain in the human psyche. Simon Armitage is the author of "Zoom!".