SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

In a collaboration with the Penfold Press Clive Hicks-Jenkins has produced a sequence of fourteen original screen prints inspired by Simon Armitage's acclaimed translation of the medieval verse drama Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 

Each print is inspired by the text and rooted stylistically in its world, but beyond that Clive has allowed his imagination free reign.

"What I particularly respond to in Clive’s works are the way that he has his own vision. These are not simply backcloths or illustrations or visual subtitles to the poem, he's made his own visions of what is in itself a visionary poem." - Simon Armitage

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The Green Chapel screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Revised Edition. Signed copy.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Revised Edition. Signed copy.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Revised Edition. Signed copy.

Simon Armitage
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The revised edition of Simon Armitage's translation, originally published in 2007, is now available in an edition illustrated with image's from the Clive Hicks-Jenkins set of fourteen prints on the theme of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 

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 . . .

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 visualised 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 marvellous classic.

Signed by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Hardback

168 Pages

Essays and Interviews

Interview with Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins shares some of the inspiration for his Sir Gawain and the Green Knight series 

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Interview with Daniel Bugg

Daniel Bugg talks about his collaboration with Clive Hicks-Jenkins and his work at the Penfold Press.

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Medievel Modernity

James Russell examines some of the themes developed within print series. 

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