The Dead Sea Poems
by Simon Armitage
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Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity.Tags
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Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of poetry, including his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He lives in Yorkshire, England, is a professor of poetry at the University of Sheffield, and in 2010 was awarded the CBE for services to poetry.
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- First words
- And I was travelling lightly, barefoot
over bedrock, then through lands that were stitched
with breadplant and camomile. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We wait, listless, aimless now it's over,
ready for what follows, what comes after,
stood beneath an iron sky together,
awkwardly at first, until whenever.
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