Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage John Kelly Eliot Prize and The Whole

Eliot Prize and The Whole & Rain-domed Universe

it is the siren song to the poet who listens for silence

George Szirtes and Malika Booker

This longer pamphlet voices the loneliness and isolation that follow bereavement

The poet's signature rhythmic propulsion serves as the engine for his newest collection

Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage John Kelly Eliot Prize and The WholeGrowing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night time view from his bedroom window, those 'private, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his first poems. Decades on, that window continues to operate as both framework and focal point for the writing, the vastness of the surrounding moors