Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage Carcanet ’ And Archibald MacLeish wrote

’ And Archibald MacLeish wrote

in both its ‘normal’ and ‘perverse’ varieties

and the personal transformation that follows between 'loss / and a life / that starts anew

Welsh history - and always with the lyric and imagistic precision by which her poetry is instantly recognisable

James Goodman

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage Carcanet ’ And Archibald MacLeish wroteOver 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 Bronte written at the time of the writer's