Dead by Armitage Simon: Signed (6 results)

First Edition. Signed to Peter Porter. Fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 57 pages. Contents; The Dead Sea Poems -- The Anaesthetist -- Man with a Golf Ball Heart -- From the Middle Distance -- C.V. -- I Say I Say I Say -- White Christmas -- Before You Cut Loose, -- A Hip Flask -- Give -- Stray -- Goalkeeper with a Cigarette -- A Sculpture of Christ with Swings and a Slide -- A Week and a Fortnight -- Dream Holiday -- On an Owd Piktcha -- C.B. -- Chapter and Verse -- Cover Version -- A Meteorite -- At the Quarantine Station -- D-notice -- The Two of Us -- Afterword -- Five Eleven Ninety Nine -- About the Author -- Copyright. Subjects; English poetry. English poetry 20th century. 20th century. English poetry 20th century. Anesthesia. Poetry. Beggars. Dogs. Fires. Football. Photo illustrations and portraits. Social classes. Vocation. Literature. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Signed to Peter Porter. Fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 57 pages. Contents; The Dead Sea Poems -- The Anaesthetist -- Man with a Golf Ball Heart -- From the Middle Distance -- C.V. -- I Say I Say I Say -- White Christmas -- Before You Cut Loose, -- A Hip Flask -- Give -- Stray -- Goalkeeper with a Cigarette -- A Sculpture of Christ with Swings and a Slide -- A Week and a Fortnight -- Dream Holiday -- On an Owd Piktcha -- C.B. -- Chapter and Verse -- Cover Version -- A Meteorite -- At the Quarantine Station -- D-notice -- The Two of Us -- Afterword -- Five Eleven Ninety Nine -- About the Author -- Copyright. Subjects; English poetry. English poetry 20th century. 20th century. English poetry 20th century. Anesthesia. Poetry. Beggars. Dogs. Fires. Football. Photo illustrations and portraits. Social classes. Vocation. Literature. 1 Kg.…

First edition, first printing of author's collection of poetry. Signed by the author. Fine paperback original.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing paperback original (slight wear)- no dustjacket (as issued) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s). …

Condition: As new. No jacket. Limited paperback original. Limited paperback original. 8vo. Pp. xiii-[xiv], [47], [3]. Grey wraps, printed in red and black. With Author's five-page introduction. No. 341 of 500 specially printed copies. The Special Edition, published under a different ISBN to the trade issue. Signed by Author to title page. Publisher's bookmark advertising publication, laid in. A 2008 Mental Health in the Media Documentary Film Winner. A short collection of poetry, originally broadcast on Remembrance Sunday 2007 as a Channel 4 documentary, directed by Brian Hill. The poems focus on the testimonies of veterans of the Gulf, Bosnia and Malayan wars. "Never having been to the front line, turning the words, phrases and experiences of these soldiers into verse has been the closest I've ever come to writing 'real' war poetry, and as close as I ever want to get". Appointed Poet Laureate in 2019, Armitage is currently professor of poetry at the University of Leeds, a post he took up after completing his four-year elected stint (2015-19) to the chair of Oxford Professor of Poetry. "[U]niquely impressive. In transmuting the stories of particular soldiers into the lyrical music of Simon Armitage's poems, something exceptional is achieved: the painful truth of lives damaged beyond help is made meaningful for the rest of us. We can only catch our breath and read them again and again." -Joan Bakewell. signed.…

1st edition. Softcover, as issued. Grey covers, very clean pages, in mint condition. Signed by the author. This is perhaps the most moving and powerful of all Simon Armitage's books. He contributes nine poems, for three soldiers who had served in, respectively, Malaya, Bosnia and Basra. In the Channel 4 film of the same name those ex-soldiers read 'their' poems and one cannot do better than to quote Joan Bakewell's reaction; ' The Not Dead is uniquely impressive. In transmuting the stories of particular soldiers into the lyrical music of Simon Armitage's poems, something exceptional is achieved; the painful truth of lives damaged beyond help is made meaningful for the rest of us. We can only catch our breath and read them again and again'.…