Still ; A Poetic Respnse to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield.

This book represents an enhanced, published version of the art installation ' Still ' . The Grey cloth boards and the book block are good and square. This copy does not have a dust jacket.

From Publisher:

Simon Armitage has been commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers' Centre Norwich to write a sequence of poems in response to 26 panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, London. The Somme Offensive took place on the Western Front between July and November 1916, and is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British military history. Armitage has written thirty poems of between two and 20 lines that are versions of The Georgics by the Roman poet Virgil. Paired with black-and-white images that are a hundred years old, the contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of war to haunting effect.

Product Info

ISBN: 1911253131

ISBN-13: 9781911253136

Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Year: 2016

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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