By Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate

Illustrated by Angela Harding

Favorite poem: Charged by evening sun / the cherry tree in the field / stays lit after dark.

From the publisher: 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 fizz and froth of the annual blossom display is explored here both as an exuberant emblem of the natural world and a nervous marker of our vulnerable climate. Angela Harding responds to the poems in wonderful accompanying illustrations.

Dimensions: 63 pages

Hardcover