Description
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.







Gold from the Stone
Slipping the Leash
Floss
Jinx
Book of Mercy
The Silvering
Negative of a Group Photograph
The Moon Before Morning