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I was in Blackwell's yesterday evening and saw that Simon Armitage has a new book, The Universal Home Doctor, out. Why was I not informed? Faber website says:
'This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. '
However, the cheeky bastards are not bringing it out in paperback until next autumn.
I'm also waiting for the new Geoffrey Hill collection, The Orchards of Syon, with some anticipation (even though I still haven't got through Speech! Speech! It sounds from this article that Syon might be a more Mercian Hymns-ish collection, which is good because those are my favourites (how predictable, but there you go...). There's a poem to read here.
Is there anything else good coming up? |
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