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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A fine short book based on a poem-film for the BBC. The poems are interspersed with stills from the film. Contains some of his finest early work, and as you might expect has a read-out-loud quality to them. ( ) no reviews | add a review
These poems were written for a poem-film by Simon Armitage in the BBC 2 series Words on Film. The film is set on the Ashfield Valley Estate in Rochdale, Lancashire, which consisted of 26 alphabetically named flats. Ashfield Valley was in the process of being demolished as the poems were written and the film was being made. Simon Armitage was then working as a probation officer, and his first posting as a raw recruit was to Rochdale, where his patch included Ashfield Valley. Xanadu is his personal and imaginative response to the ill-starred estate, using highly innovative and strangely unsettling poetry and film techniques, assisted by contributions from the last surviving Ashfield tenants. Dogs, snow and Hungarian dancers add further zest to Armitage's Xanadu. The book is illustrated with stills from the film. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.914Literature English English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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