New Cemetery Peter de Polnay But Kairo is at a

But Kairo is at a loose end

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

'A South Sea Bubble of a book it is

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

A gateway to other worlds

New Cemetery Peter de Polnay But Kairo is at aThe 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