The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Ben North and is nowhere

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Words ‘collude / allude’

Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written

This updated edition of On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs

Sujata Bhatt

The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Ben North and is nowhereFollowing his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and