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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,655 ratings — published 2012
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as simon-armitage)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,760 ratings — published 1375
Seeing Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 479 ratings — published 2010
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as simon-armitage)
avg rating 3.58 — 209 ratings — published 2006
EURIPIDES' MISTER HERACLES (FABER POETRY)
by (shelved 1 time as simon-armitage)
avg rating 4.26 — 19 ratings — published 2000
Kid (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as simon-armitage)
avg rating 3.72 — 647 ratings — published 1992
The Last Days of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as simon-armitage)
avg rating 3.92 — 194 ratings — published 2014
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as simon-armitage)
avg rating 3.90 — 365 ratings — published 2008
“I am very bothered when I think
of the bad things I have done in my life.
Not least that time in the chemistry lab
when I held a pair of scissors by the blades
and played the handles
in the naked lilac flame of the Bunsen burner;
then called your name, and handed them over.
O the unrivalled stench of branded skin
as you slipped your thumb and middle finger in,
then couldn’t shake off the two burning rings. Marked,
the doctor said, for eternity.
Don’t believe me, please, if I say
that was just my butterfingered way, at thirteen,
of asking you if you would marry me."
— I Am Very Bothered”
― Book of Matches
of the bad things I have done in my life.
Not least that time in the chemistry lab
when I held a pair of scissors by the blades
and played the handles
in the naked lilac flame of the Bunsen burner;
then called your name, and handed them over.
O the unrivalled stench of branded skin
as you slipped your thumb and middle finger in,
then couldn’t shake off the two burning rings. Marked,
the doctor said, for eternity.
Don’t believe me, please, if I say
that was just my butterfingered way, at thirteen,
of asking you if you would marry me."
— I Am Very Bothered”
― Book of Matches
