Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas De Rokha is relatively unknown

De Rokha is relatively unknown outside Chile

’ – Pippa Little

and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected

they compare a farmer harvesting to a recipe for Victoria sponge

or placed in a frame

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas De Rokha is relatively unknownSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie worshipers at a