Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage Carcanet writing highly memorable poems in

writing highly memorable poems in response to the place

Welsh history - and always with the lyric and imagistic precision by which her poetry is instantly recognisable

and the personal transformation that follows between 'loss / and a life / that starts anew

are fed by rage

James Goodman

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage Carcanet writing highly memorable poems inOver the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written to be performed at the launch of Beck's Song Reader, to the suite of ten poems about Branwell Bronte written at the time of the writer's