Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Richard Meier Taylor’s literary culture is basic

Taylor’s literary culture is basic and concrete

“an ongoing discussion with myself”

The Manchester Review

religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other’ – Nilufer Bharucha

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Richard Meier Taylor’s literary culture is basicSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie worshipers at a