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The Bed by Simon Armitage.

 
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becky sharp



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:27 am    Post subject: The Bed by Simon Armitage. Reply with quote

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a moving tribute to mark the 100th anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.

He will read his poem The Bed – the title is a metaphor for the anonymous soldier’s grave – at a televised Armistice Day service at Westminster Abbey today.

Mr Armitage, 57, said yesterday: ‘The poem tells the story of the retrieval and repatriation of the body of the Unknown Warrior from the battlefields of World War I to his grave in Westminster Abbey.


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