When a mysterious Green Knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge .
They are reproduced here, alongside Armitage\'s revised text, to create a special edition of this marvellous classic..
The poem\'s key episodes have been visualised into a series of bold, richly textured screen-prints by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
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.
Simon Armitage\'s version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original.
This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language. . .
When a mysterious Green Knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge
