Poetry Club: Pearl, Simon Armitage translation/version

We will meet at the HARCOURT ARMS pub in Jericho.

Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's ‘eerie and wonderful’ version of the Middle English poem was the winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.