Page 28 - We'll Sing Coverage Book
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27 December 2020
Dancers Nat Zangi and Pfion Vince use dance to illustrate the words of Simon Armitage in the
project, Where Did The World Go? Photograph: Brian Hill
How to tell millions of individual stories? Or represent the pain and anxiety of a
pandemic to audiences of the future? Perhaps it takes a national poet to attempt it.
Speaking exclusively to the Observer, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, and his long-
time collaborator, the award-winning British filmmaker Brian Hill, have revealed they
are quietly tackling this challenge together.
