Simon Armitage’s spring collection Blossomise – a glorious collaboration between the Poet Laureate and illustrator Angela Harding – together with a…

Summary Simon Armitage’s spring collection Blossomise – a glorious collaboration between the Poet Laureate and illustrator Angela Harding – together with a Blossomise tea towel. Exclusive to Faber. RRP value: £22. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of energetic leaps of imagination and language, the twenty-two poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand-alone lyrical pieces that take in the stylistic tones of ballads, hymns, songs, prayers and nursery rhymes. The collection was commissioned by and published in collaboration with the National Trust as part of their annual Blossom programme and campaign. Using one of Angela Harding’s original illustrations for Blossomise, alongside the final haiku from Simon Armitage’s poem sequence, our Faber Members tea towel is printed on premium white cotton. Specification: 100% premium natural cotton 5oz cotton Made in the UK Individually wrapped in a bespoke belly band 50 x 77mm