The Unaccompanied: Poems

by Simon Armitage

Book Overview

From the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful collection of poetry that gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace.

We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524732427
• ISBN13: 9781524732424
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"