The second poem in Simon Armitage’s new poetry collection is titled “Drey” – a reference to the small hanging baskets of branches in which squirrels live. Armitage describes a drey as a “twig and leaf ...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a poem to mark the death of the Queen. Floral Tribute is composed of two stanzas of nine lines each, describing the coming of a September evening and the ...