Blossomise by Simon Armitage Jeremy Dixon it shows how its seven

it shows how its seven ages echo and rhyme with our own

Kae Tempest and many more

but Jane Aldous

one that leaps with language

Jem Henderson (they/them) is a genderqueer poet from Leeds

Blossomise by Simon Armitage Jeremy Dixon it shows how its sevenSimon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand alone lyrical pieces that take in the stylistic