On an Overgrown Path

Simon Armitage

Spring 2018

The alternative guidebook leads
to a partially cleared space in the forest,
but the next page has been ripped out.

What is it I’m supposed to be looking for here?
A flint arrowhead lodged
in the trunk of an ancient oak?
The spot where Janáček sat and composed?
Is this the furthest point from the coast?

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Simon Armitage lives in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. His most recent collection is The Unaccompanied (Faber & Faber, UK, Knopf, US, 2017), and his medieval translations include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Faber & Faber, UK, Norton, US, 2007). His dramatic reworkings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey have been performed at Shakespeare's Globe, London. In 2015 he was appointed Oxford University professor of poetry.
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