{"product_id":"simon-armitage-still-a-poetic-response-to-photographs-of-the-somme-battlefield","title":"Simon Armitage: Still - A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSimon Armitage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e30.48 x 1.52 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnitharmon Press | 2016 | \u003c\/span\u003e9781911253136\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStill \u003c\/em\u003eis a sequence of poems written by poet laureate Simon Armaitage in response to panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme. Chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, these astonishingly clear photographic images were ahead of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas published on the centenary of the battle, which is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British military history. Appropriately and impressively, Simon Armitage’s thirty poems are versions of the infamously tense\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby the Roman poet Virgil. The contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of war to haunting effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Praline Design Studio and published by Enitharmon Press and the Imperial War Museums, \u003cem\u003eStill\u003c\/em\u003e is a large-scale landscape publication with introductory texts, contemporary maps, fold-outs and decorated endpapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enitharmon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48484249239810,"sku":"BK-ENI-SAS-001-E","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_0160_5b0cca86-d6d5-4057-b29c-4040b7b88890.jpg?v=1791385965","url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/products\/simon-armitage-still-a-poetic-response-to-photographs-of-the-somme-battlefield","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}