Book description
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts
Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles
with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one
of the most individual voices of his generation.
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 and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
