The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Ben North and is nowhere

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granting vivid windows into richly imagined lives both contemporary and historical

Both intensely lyrical and permeated with a sophisticated scientific understanding of the universe

Words ‘collude / allude’

Numbered from one to one hundred and signed by Deryn Rees-Jones and Charlotte Hodes

The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Ben North and is nowhereFollowing 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 moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and