The poetry of Simon Armitage - Tony Childs

Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation. Since
his first collection, Zoom, in 1989 he has published ten full-length
collections of poetry, while also writing and presenting numerous works
for radio, television and film. He is now one of the poets most widely
studied at GCSE examination level.

This study guide to Simon Armitage's poetry will be essential
reading and preparation for GCSE students and their teachers, to whose
needs it has been expertly tailored. The book examines Armitage's work
in just the ways that students need to think about it - in respect of
how the poems are crafted in language and form, and the kinds of themes,
ideas and attitudes that they reflect.

It also includes sections on studying individual poems for the
examination, an illuminating biography with questions and answers and
sample essays.