The Floral Tribute: the Poet Laureate writes an homage to Queen Elizabeth II
14th September 2022
The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
has released a final tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II,
evoking her memory in an appropriately-named ‘Floral Tribute.’
Simon Armitage’s poem is written as a double acrostic, meaning the
first word of each line forms its own word when you read
vertically—in this, both stanzas spell out ‘Elizabeth.’ In ‘Floral
Tribute,’ a September…
