New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Eric Selland Her poems speak to us

Her poems speak to us strongly today

a true poet and a truly contemporary poet

in reverie

and the self

cheering on and hard-won triumphs

New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Eric Selland Her poems speak to usThe 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