The Poet Laureate’s highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection is narrated by the poet himself in this audiobook gift card.

Summary The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems – composed in short-lined tercets – reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland. As seasons come and go and the cemetery fills up with new ‘residents’, Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration. Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes. Exclusive to Faber and independent bookshops. Audiobook in a Card: How it Works Each card includes space to write a personal message and comes with a plain kraft envelope – ready to post or give in person. The recipient simply scans the QR code inside to unlock the full-length audiobook through the Spiracle app. No subscription needed.