Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage #foliosociety both past and present

both past and present

The virtuous Gawain accepts

from the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential Sixties start

But what does it mean to write diaspora poetry

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage #foliosociety both past and presentSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie worshipers at a