Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014
…because he has no highfalutin song to sing, no neat message for the nation. (“Goalkeeper with Cigarette”, 1995) To open up this Simon Armitage retrospective is to delve into a treasure trove of the surreal, the unlikely, the ironic, the laugh-out-loud comic, the darkly humorous and the downright horrific. Above all, it is a delightfully Read More