Name: Blossomise by Armitage, Simon
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Blossomise by Armitage, Simon

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Author: Armitage, Simon

Poetry

Published on 21 March 2024 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 72 pages, 15 single pages of B&W illustrations and 5 spreads B&W illustrations
135 x 205 x 13 | 222g

** 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 an

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