Killing Time: The Millennium Poem - Simon Armitage

Category: Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Historical Events Poetry Year 2000

Written by Simon Armitage
Read by Simon Armitage
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

In this 1000-line poem, the manic countdown to 1000 years of history reaches its climax, with the last 12 months spooling past like newsreel. It is a vision full of humorous and bleaker possibilities, which ranges forward and back through time and space, mixing and matching as it goes.