Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip as an emblem of the wartime generation whose survival was the ‘stuff of minor miracle’ Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written elegy to Duke of Edinburgh as emblem of the wartime generation The poem, entitled The Patriarchs, also refers to the … Read more