Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas on Border

on Border

Evan Jones describes as ‘a world journey through London’s exiled and émigré artists

’ — Ilya Kaminsky

or placed in a frame

in nature and community

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage Toby Martinez de las Rivas on BorderSimon 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