Kid (First Paperback Edition, 1992)

Simon Armitage

ISBN 10: 0571166075 / ISBN 13: 9780571166077

Published by Faber & Faber, 1992

About this Item

Paperback. First Printing. 88 pages. Signed by the poet on the title page. Text pages tanning a bit around edges. No other marks in book. Paperback poetry book; Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best First Collection 1992.

Seller Inventory # X5-D4LD-MN37

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kid (First Paperback Edition, 1992)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571166075
• ISBN 13: 9780571166077
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage''s inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.

About the Author

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014), The Unaccompanied (2017) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He also writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and awarded a CBE for services to poetry.