New CemeteryThe 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

he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives

Other chances

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He must investigate a sinister group

But can he really

interrupted by a grim spell in the code-breaking huts at Bletchley Park

arrowed stockings

is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all

But the return of an old case shatters the calm

Superb entertainment from one of crime's most famous and accomplished writers

unless he tells the blackmailer where the witness is hiding

but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts