Synopsis
The acclaimed and respected writer, Simon Armitage, has won numerous awards for his poetry. His new anthology, The Not Dead, is a short collection of poems originally aired on a Channel 4 documentary film of the same name, shown in the summer of 2007. The poems focus on the testimonies of veterans of the Gulf, Bosnia and Malayan wars - ex-soldiers whose voices have seldom been heard before. They are featured alongside an introduction from Simon and press reviews of the film. Simon Armitage has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award. He has served as a judge for the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Griffin Prize, and in 2006 was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. His anthology, Kid, has sold in excess of 90,000 copies.
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