New Cemetery Peter de Polnay will also be loved by

will also be loved by readers of Nick Hornby

(Not entirely surprising when you’re ninety per cent insecurities and ten per cent raw power

A gateway to other worlds

fresh from the sea

Set against a backdrop of increasingly invasive technology

New Cemetery Peter de Polnay will also be loved byThe 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