Hansel & Gretel

A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

Simon Armitage, Clive Hicks-Jenkins

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Faber & Faber
03 January 2024

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Poetry (Children's&YA)

Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.

Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.

By: Simon Armitage
Illustrated by: Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 211mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780571384457
ISBN 10: 0571384455
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 03 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , Children/juvenile , ELT Advanced , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate and Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his writing, which includes poetry, drama, prose, translation and song lyric. In 2018 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.