The Owl and the Nightingale. With Illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

Bookseller Notes

With slip to accompany the edition signed by the poet. Armitage's rendition of the mysterious Medieval poem, as ever, with contemporary touches, '... If the poem was designed as an allegorical pastiche of humanity's predilection for vitriolic disagreement, then the two birds would not be out of place several centuries later, wrestling for 'control of the narrative' in an internet chat-room or across social media platforms..', animated by HIcks-Jenkins' timeless illustrations, all in autumnal shades on a black ground.