Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The poem "The Green Knight" is a medieval tale of courage and adventure, retold by Simon Armitage and illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins in a special edition. The poem is renowned for its enigmatic and beloved nature, and Armitage's version captures its tact, sophistication, and dramatic intensity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 18 October 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber

When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolish enough to take up his challenge. This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic, and beloved poems in the English language. Simon Armitage's version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication, and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years apart, two poets set out on a journey through the same mesmeric landscape—physical, allegorical, and acoustic—in the course of which the Gawain poet has finally found his true translator.

The poem's key episodes have been visualized into a series of bold, richly textured screen-prints by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. They are reproduced here, alongside Armitage's revised text, to create a special edition of this marvelous classic.

Weight: 550g
Dimension: 165 x 211 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571340163
Edition number: Main