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Paperback. "The Universal Home Doctor" is Simon Armitage's most personal collection of poems yet. The poems journey across the globe but are ultimately set against the most intimate of landscapes - the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571217267
ISBN
9780571217267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

Paperback. 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!". Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571166077
ISBN
9780571166077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.28

Paperback. Presents the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from the most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus' return from the Trojan War memorably to life. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315109
ISBN
9780571315109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Engaging with the matter of England in the here and now, the author focuses his attention on the conflicts within society. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571233267
ISBN
9780571233267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.98

Paperback. A green knight on a green horse rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571223282
ISBN
9780571223282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.26

Hardback. Simon Armitage - poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University - has been commissioned by 14-18 Now to write a sequence of poems in response to photographs (aerial, oblique and panoramic) of areas associated with the Battle of the Somme, which took place on the Western Front between July to November 1916. Num Pages: 80 pages, 12 images and 13 photographs. BIC Classification: DCF; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 251 x 15. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911253136
ISBN
9781911253136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.64

Hardcover. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Dram"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
80
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
SKU
KHS0038544
ISBN
9780571215331
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 31.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571229369
ISBN
9780571229369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.75

Paperback. Shows how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion. Editor(s): Armitage, Simon. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571278725
ISBN
9780571278725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.53

Paperback. Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the "Book of Matches" which are sonnets, "Becoming of Age" and "Reading the Bans", a series of poems about Armitage's marriage. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571169825
ISBN
9780571169825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 201 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571218608
ISBN
9780571218608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. Cloudcuckooland Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571224104
ISBN
9780571224104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.72

Paperback. A title that deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298419
ISBN
9780571298419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.28

Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear
Publication date
2005
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
SKU
KCW0006221
ISBN
9780141022550
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "Compulsively readable. .. Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."-Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
A New Verse Translation ed.
SKU
V9780393334159
ISBN
9780393334159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.04

paperback. A collection of poems in which questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, mingle with more mundane considerations, such as the problems of owning a dog, and the vicissitudes of the job market. Simon Armitage was the 1993 "Sunday Times" Young Writer of the Year. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571176007
ISBN
9780571176007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.92

Paperback. In this new verse adaptation, Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly companions; and between subtle Odysseus and a range of shape-shifting adversaries. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393330816
ISBN
9780393330816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. Dimension: 211 x 140. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631492549
ISBN
9781631492549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. Dimension: 218 x 141. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871407184
ISBN
9780871407184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.35

hardcover. Documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial Yorkshire, and where alarm bells for ailing communities go unheeded or unheard. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0030397
ISBN
9780571333844
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

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