Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage British Poet, Playwright, Novelist & Translator Britannica

He was made a C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday honours 2010 and was elected as Oxford University's Professor of Poetry in 2015. Simon Armitage's first recording for The Poetry Archive was made on 12th July 2005 at the Audio Workshop, London, while his second was made at the Soundhouse, London on 28th July 2016.

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April 6, 2021. THE WILD SILENCE. By Raynor Winn. "The Wild Silence" continues the story Raynor Winn began in her well-received 2019 memoir, "The Salt Path," but one can enjoy the sequel on.

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Now nature has very much come back into the centre of what poetry can, and should, be dealing with.". The Laurel will come with a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £2,000 and a third.

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Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, a village in West Yorkshire, England. He earned a BA from Portsmouth University in geography, and an MS in social work from Manchester University, where he studied the impact of televised violence on young offenders. He worked as a probation officer for six years before focusing on poetry. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University.

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The Unaccompanied, by Simon Armitage Faber & Faber, 76pp, £14.99. The bare winter larch trees become "widowed princesses in moth-eaten furs". In "Poor Old Soul" an elderly man sits, "hunched and skeletal under a pile of clothes,/a Saxon king unearthed in a ditch". This is the measured poetry of late middle-age, in which only the.

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Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass Lyrics. It seemed an unlikely match. All winter unplugged, grinding its teeth in a plastic sleeve, the chainsaw swung. nose-down from a hook in the darkroom. under.

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Simon Armitage says poets have had their money's worth from nature and it's time "to pay something back". After a "life-changing" visit to the Arctic, poet laureate Simon Armitage says poets can.

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His first lecture at Oxford, he said, will focus on the current state of the art. Poetry "has a very high opinion of itself, and not one that is always shared by people who don't read it.

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Simon Robert Armitage CBE, FRSL (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds.. He has published over 20 collections of poetry, starting with Zoom! in 1989. Many of his poems concern his home town in West Yorkshire; these are collected in Magnetic Field: The Marsden.

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In the book, Moth is mistaken for Simon Armitage, the poet, by people who clearly have no idea what Armitage looks like. He looks much better than I was expecting, a bit pale but with a big smile.

Simon Armitage’s poetic perspective on the horror of war Norwich Evening News

Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees], England) British poet, playwright, and novelist whose poetry is attuned to modern life and vernacular language and has been regarded as both accessible and revelatory. His works were widely anthologized and have been broadly popular. In 2019 Armitage became poet laureate of Great Britain.

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Armitage knows the place well - he is a patron of the Friends of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. His tour has hardly been exhaustive (we're yet to come across a Henry Moore) but I'm starving.

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Biography. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer.

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Raynor questions Moth for not denying he was this Simon, but his anger at the mix-ups in the past has now grown to be a source of amusement for him, thinking of how the real Simon will react to.