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Hardback 72 Pages
Published: 21/03/2024
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Waterstones Says

The Poet Laureate pays luminous tribute to the arrival of spring blossom in a collection of poems that run the gamut from haikus to ballads and from flourishing saplings to urban sprawl.

** A Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller **

Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject.

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand-alone lyrical pieces that take in the stylistic tones of ballads, hymns, songs, prayers and nursery rhymes. From a crashed Ford Capri wrapped around the immovable trunk of a cherry tree, to saplings flourishing among skyscrapers and urban sprawl, the fizz and froth of the annual blossom display is explored here both as an exuberant emblem of the natural world and a nervous marker of our vulnerable climate.

Angela Harding responds to the poems in wonderful accompanying illustrations.

Published in collaboration with the National Trust as part of their annual Blossom programme and campaign.

Simon Armitage's book Blossomise was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 23-03-2024

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571388417
Number of pages: 72
Weight: 230 g
Dimensions: 205 x 135 x 10 mm
Edition: Main

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“Small but Perfect Celebration of Blossom”

This is a glorious gem of a book as beautiful to hold as to read and just fizzing with the exuberance of springtime blossom. The Angela Harding illustrations perfectly complement Simon Armitage's poems. Although... More

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