Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics by Simon Armitage

Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics by Simon ArmitageIn Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises most recently with the 'ambient post rock' band Land Yacht Regatta. Many of the lyrics collected here were written for LYR. Others are drawn from Armitage's days with the DIY indie band The Scaremongers, various film and theatre productions including Songbirds and the BAFTA

Published here for the first time

but also his relationships with the ones who love him most

For a generation growing up in this world

In her youth

redemption and dragons from the twice Carnegie Medal-winner Patrick Ness

The tour is truly global

or the gorgeous words for different amounts of light in the sky

Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich

to discovering the arts through her local youth theatre

the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague

made global news and was shared by millions

love on the battlefield