Book description
From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated
with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the
aid of a powerful Russian telescope. The sequence of eighty-eight
poems at the heart of CloudCuckooLand springs from this preoccupation,
each poem receiving its title from one of the constellations, while
turning out to be less concerned with pure astronomy than with moments
in the life of the poet's mind.
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. Among his collections of poetry
are Kid, Book of Matches, The Universal Home Doctor, Tyrannosaurus Rex
versus The Corduroy Kid and Seeing Stars. His acclaimed translation of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2007.
