New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Eric Selland and notes that 'the future

and notes that 'the future is here right now'

With wit and warmth

even when we feel at our most shameful

The Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation

its liveliness and bounce

New Cemetery by Simon Armitage Eric Selland and notes that 'the futureThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems "composed in short lined tercets