New Cemetery, Poems Hayward Gallery Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh

Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh

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New Cemetery, Poems Hayward Gallery Nigerian sound artist Emeka OgbohThe 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