Dwell - Simon Armitage

Winner Of The Holyer An Gof Publishers Award For Poetrythis Gorgeously Illustrated Collection Of Poems Illuminates And Reimagines The Ingenious, Fragile Dwellings Of The Living Creatures Around Us.poet Laureate Simon Armitage Was Inspired To Write These Poems By The Lost Gardens Of Heligan In Cornwall, An Ambitious Restoration Project Where History And Mystery Coexist. The Reawakened Landscape With Its Woods, Meadows And 'jungle' Offers A Bustling, Fertile Realm For All Sorts Of Creatures To Inhabit. Armitage Uses Elements Of Riddle And Folklore To Animate A Series Of Dwellings: The 'twig-and-leaf Crow's-nest Squat' Of A Squirrel's Drey, A Beaver Lodge's 'spillikin Stave Church' And A Hive's 'reactor Core'.