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Simon Armitage

Poet Laureate. Remains is a real soldier's story from a documentary.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

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3 quotes by or about Simon Armitage, in the order they happen.

Probably armed, possibly not

Armitage · Remains · conflict · memory

The soldier shot a looter. He does not know if the man had a gun. The doubt is what stays.

his bloody life in my bloody hands

Armitage · Remains · conflict · memory

Bloody as blood and bloody as a swear word. The last line. It echoes Macbeth.

He's here in my head when I close my eyes

Armitage · Remains · memory · conflict

He came home. The dead man came with him.

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