Simon Armitage reads An Accommodation from Seeing Stars

Simon Armitage s new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hypervivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amsterdam, Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a bordercurtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pieworshipers at a Northern sculpture farm; the soapopera supremacists at their