Blossomise

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** A Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller **

Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject.

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand-alone lyrical pieces that take in the stylistic tones of ballads, hymns, songs, prayers and nursery rhymes. From a crashed Ford Capri wrapped around the immovable trunk of a cherry tree, to saplings flourishing among skyscrapers and urban sprawl, the fizz and froth of the annual blossom display is explored here both as an exuberant emblem of the natural world and a nervous marker of our vulnerable climate.

Angela Harding responds to the poems in wonderful accompanying illustrations.

Published in collaboration with the National Trust as part of their annual Blossom programme and campaign.

Simon Armitage's book Blossomise was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 23-03-2024

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    Blossomise

    Posted by Colby Chester on 1st Jul 2024

    A disappointment, considering the status of the poet. The HaiKu s seemed contrived and without surprise, and the poems, less than worthy of this attractive book

Authors:
Armitage, Simon
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780571388417
Publication Date:
21/03/2024
Year Published:
2024
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Illustrations Note:
15 single pages of B&W illustrations and 5 spreads B&W illustrations
Number of Pages:
72
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Language:
English
SKU:
9780571388417

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