**SIGNED** The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Penny Sharman Wear and Tees of the

Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutt’s song ‘John North’)

our past continuous in our present

Stein Mehren

crip humour and revolutionary grief are all on display

Here they can be seen as a body of work

**SIGNED** The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Penny Sharman Wear and Tees of theSorry we have sold out of signed copies you can buy an unsigned copy here. Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which