Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage Carcanet are fed by rage

are fed by rage

writing highly memorable poems in response to the place

in both its ‘normal’ and ‘perverse’ varieties

'Till the end / we sing / into the wind

James Goodman

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage Carcanet are fed by rageOver the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written to be performed at the launch of Beck's Song Reader, to the suite of ten poems about Branwell Bronte written at the time of the writer's