Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.
Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.
| ISBN: | 9780571384457 |
| Publication date: | 5th October 2023 |
| Author: | Simon Armitage |
| Illustrator: | Clive HicksJenkins |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Children’s / Teenage: Poetry |