Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2010.
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Seeing Stars is a genuine change in direction, while at the same time a distillation and amplification of a voice we’ve come to recognise and admire. These new poems take the form of monologue, parable and shaggy dog story – though, this being Armitage, the dog has been shorn, primped and cosseted into a little horse with a rather aggressive insistence on its equine status. Many of the poems have Armitage’s familiar knack of using English as it’s variously spoken today, but also draw on our contemporary planetarium of celebrities and cultural figures. The collection hangs together convincingly, and this is perhaps largely a result of what’s been learned from his re-tellings of Homer, Euripides and the Gawain poet along the way.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 13 May 2010.
Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.
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