Never good with horsesIn Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises most recently with the 'ambient post rock' band Land Yacht Regatta. Many of the lyrics collected here were written for LYR. Others are drawn from Armitage's days with the DIY indie band The Scaremongers, various film and theatre productions including 'Songbirds' and the

Primarily sweet

We spend our childhoods wanting to a be adults and

Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years

before it can bring unwanted attention down on them

updated for this new edition in 2014 and the age of burgeoning devolution

It covers changing architectural styles across the centuries

But her luck

Afghan rugs

culminating in the mass murder of over a million Jews

Scotland and Ireland

by one of the world's leading Biblical scholars

Reprint of Three Feathers and a