New Cemetery Peter de Polnay I did not want to

I did not want to put it down until the last page was turned

fresh from the sea

Set against a backdrop of increasingly invasive technology

will also be loved by readers of Nick Hornby

she finds herself thrust into a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion

New Cemetery Peter de Polnay I did not want toThe 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