Pearl

Author: Simon Armitage

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 4 May 2023 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 128 pages
129 x 197 x 12mm | 152g

WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl is here brought to vivid and intricate life in the care of one of the finest poets writing today.