Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas ’ – Pippa Little

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Caley's vocabulary pricks his readers to keep the action anachronistic and contemporary… the book is a Waste Land of sorts

Evan Jones describes as ‘a world journey through London’s exiled and émigré artists

in nature and community

it is passionate and dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages suffered by Syrian families forced to flee their destroyed country

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas ’ – Pippa LittleSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie worshipers at a