{"product_id":"the-unaccompanied-simon-armitage-9781524732424","title":"The Unaccompanied: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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 for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite \"like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, \/ nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones.\" In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its \"Songs about mills and mines and a great war, \/ lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, \/ songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films\"--in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Armitage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1524732427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524732424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.60d","brand":"Simon Armitage","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43936484294911,"sku":"9781524732424","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_99f3c106-344c-42c4-9a6f-4d2850f26c20.jpg?v=1681425828","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unaccompanied-simon-armitage-9781524732424","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}