Blossomise Author Surname:Armitage academic and broadcaster

academic and broadcaster

the loves she lost

The Humans explores all the impressive ancient civilisations that led to modern cultures today

With lines of classic and contemporary wisdom taken from a wide range of poets including Emily Bronte

Blossomise Author Surname:Armitage academic and broadcasterBlossomise' celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of energetic leaps of imagination and language, the twenty two poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand alone lyrical pieces that take in the stylistic tones of ballads, hymns, songs, prayers and nursery rhymes. From a crashed Ford Capri wrapped