Never Good with Horses

Name: Never Good with Horses
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SKU: 9780571377619
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Assembled Lyrics

By Simon Armitage

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Never Good with Horses gathers Simon Armitage's diverse song lyrics, spanning collaborations with the ambient post-rock band Land Yacht Regatta, the indie group The Scaremongers, and works for film and theatre including Songbirds and the BAFTA-winning Feltham Sings. The collection explores the fusion of poetry and song, offering an 'Intro' detailing Armitage's creative ventures and an 'Outro' with notes and anecdotes that illuminate his ritualised language. This volume celebrates Armitage's skillful ear for the musicality of words, bringing his lyrics vividly onto the page.
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This collection will appeal to fans of Simon Armitage, readers interested in the intersection of poetry and music, and those curious about contemporary lyric writing across various artistic media.

The first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate's lyric output.

The first-ever collection of the Poet Laureate's lyric output.

Description

In Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises - most recently with the 'ambient post-rock' band Land Yacht Regatta. Many of the lyrics collected here were written for LYR. Others are drawn from Armitage's days with the DIY indie band The Scaremongers, various film and theatre productions including Songbirds and the BAFTA-winning Feltham Sings, and other miscellaneous ventures.

The volume's 'Intro' charts these projects and the blurred origins of ritualised language, while its 'Outro' offers contextualising notes and anecdotal insights. Never Good with Horses further demonstrates the rich range of Armitage's repertoire and celebrates his ear for the music of language, harnessed here for the page.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571377619

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 380g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Simon Armitage

About the Author

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, his collections of poetry include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020)and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.