Blossomise
Armitage, Simon, 1963-2024
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'Blossomise' celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of energetic leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-two 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 and froth of the annual blossom display is explored here both as an exuberant emblem of the natural world and a nervous marker of our vulnerable climate.
Main title:
Blossomise / Simon Armitage.
Author:
Armitage, Simon, 1963-, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
Collation:
72 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780571388417 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.92821.92 821
LC class:
PR6051.R564
Local class:
821.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3741396
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