Simon Armitage – Still

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Simon Armitage – poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University – has been commissioned by 14-18 NOW to write a sequence of poems in response to photographs (aerial, oblique and panoramic) of areas associated with the Battle of the Somme, which took place on the Western Front between July to November 1916.

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Simon Armitage has been commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers’ Centre Norwich to write a sequence of poems in response to 26 panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, London. The Somme Offensive took place on the Western Front between July and November 1916, and is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British military history. Armitage has written thirty poems of between two and 20 lines that are versions of The Georgics by the Roman poet Virgil. Paired with black-and-white images that are a hundred years old, the contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of war to haunting effect.

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Weight 826 g
Dimensions 24.1 × 30.5 × 1.5 cm
Author

Publisher

Enitharmon Press

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

74 (some folded)

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Professional and scholarly / Code: H