New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Eric Selland and the self

and the self

— Cónal Creedon

repurposing language and adapting to the space between cultures

a true poet and a truly contemporary poet

and notes that 'the future is here right now'

New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Eric Selland and the selfThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems "composed in short lined tercets