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Killing Time

poetry by Armitage

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  • Simon Armitage
    In Simon Armitage: Poetry collections

    His long poem Killing Time (1999) was written to mark the turn of the millennium; the poem consists of 1,000 lines, counting down the same number of years of history. Out of the Blue (2008) consists of three commissioned pieces marking anniversaries of the September 11 attacks in…

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