“Oblique refractions”: Simon Armitage’s poetics of commemoration in Still, A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield (2016)

Simon Armitage, perhaps in part owing to his formidable popularity as a plain-speaking poet, has been, throughout his recent poetic career, particularly sought after by memorial commissions. Before his appointment as Poet Laureate in 2019, his consecration as public poet came with the commission of...

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Main Author: Montin Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2022-10-01
Series:Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/47832