Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic - Simon Armitage Hardback David Whyte's Consolations use everyday

David Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to better understand ourselves and the lives we walk through

began to pass ever so slowly before him

in his ninth decade

geography and mystique of this extraordinary sport

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic - Simon Armitage Hardback David Whyte's Consolations use everydayOver 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 Bront written at the time of the writer's