New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Clara Daneri a sense in retrospect of

a sense in retrospect of inevitability

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‘These poems illuminate something timeless about ambition and the human spirit

‘This quite astonishing collection should certainly be placed in the library

thoughtful and wide-ranging poet

New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Clara Daneri a sense in retrospect ofThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems "composed in short lined tercets