the Most Popular English Poet Since Larkin.' Sunday Timesafter More Than A Decade And Following His Celebrated Adventures In Drama, Translation, Travel Writing And Prose Poetry, Simon Armitage's Eleventh Collection Of Poems Heralds A Return To His Trademark Contemporary Lyricism. The Pieces In This Multi-textured And Moving Volume Are Set Against A Backdrop Of Economic Recession And Social Division, Where Mass Media, The Mass Market And Globalisation Have Made Alienation A Commonplace Experience And Where The Solitary Imagination Drifts And Conjures. The Unaccompanied Documents A World On The Brink, A World Of Unreliable Seasons And Unstable Coordinates, Where Odysseus Stalks The Aisles Of Cut-price Supermarkets In Search Of Direction, Where The Star Of Bethlehem Rises Over Industrial Yorkshire, And Where Alarm Bells For Ailing Communities Go Unheeded Or Unheard.