Last Days Of Troy

Author: Simon Armitage

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Price : $24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780571315109
Publisher : Faber Faber
Imprint : Faber Faber
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Publication date : 05 October 2016
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : 27 April 2016
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Author : Simon Armitage
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Description

Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer's Odyssey. The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus' return from the Trojan War memorably to life.

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The Last Days of Troy tells the tale of the Trojan War in a vivid new dramatic adaptation performed at the Royal Exchange.

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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author Walking Home (2012), his poetic journey along the Pennine Way. In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.