Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage pamphlet a Sister of the Society

a Sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart

They include a Selected and a Collected Poems

whose principle motifs are a stretch of a small river in Central Europe and a once feral black cat

Keith Hutson explores art as artfulness

and societies

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage pamphlet a Sister of the SocietySimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie worshipers at a