Armitage, Simon
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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation
$25.00HardcoverAdd to cartOriginating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh?tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king’
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496689
- Language: English
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By: Armitage, Simon
New Cemetery: Poems
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF THE YEAR FROM THE GUARDIAN AND THE OBSERVER – From the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, a poem sequence that considers our use of the land that surrounds him, and r… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0593804015
- Language: English
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By: Armitage, Simon
Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
$23.99PaperbackAdd to cartFirst appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this mag… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343537
- Language: English
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By: Armitage, Simon
The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation
$19.95HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem
The Owl and the Nightingale, one- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #134
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0691202168
- Language: English
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By: Armitage, Simon
Pearl: A New Verse Translation
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartOne of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his “compulsively readable” translations (New York Times Book Review). A perfect c… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492543
- Language: English
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By: Armitage, Simon
The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic
$14.95PaperbackRead moreIn this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer’s epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Capta… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330818
- Language: English





