**SIGNED** The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Penny Sharman crip humour and revolutionary grief

crip humour and revolutionary grief are all on display

from love letters and prophecies to drinking songs and graffiti

less the lyric than the epylion

living and dead

**SIGNED** The Owl and the Nightingale by Simon Armitage Penny Sharman crip humour and revolutionary griefSorry we have sold out of signed copies you can buy an unsigned copy here. Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which