New Cemetery by Simon Armitage (narrated by Simon Armitage) Ethics & moral philosophy THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW

Anthony Hatwell

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Published on 2 June 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Clothbound Classics' series

New Cemetery by Simon Armitage (narrated by Simon Armitage) Ethics & moral philosophy THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD ANDThe 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