Book description
Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in
the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and
his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on
have marked him as a poet of originality and force.
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he
was winner of one of the first Forward Prizes, and a year later was
the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He works as a freelance
writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for
radio and television. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches,
The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time, The Universal Home
Doctor, Homer's Odyssey and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid.
His acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was
published in 2007.
