(1963-05-26) 26 May 1963 (age 60) Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Spouse(s)
Alison Tootell (div.) Sue Roberts
Children
1
Residence(s)
Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England
Education
Colne Valley High School
Alma mater
Portsmouth Polytechnic University of Manchester
Occupation
Poet, playwright, novelist, singer
Website
simonarmitage.com
Simon Robert ArmitageCBE, FRSL (born 26 May 1963)[1] 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 Poems. He has translated classic poems including the Odyssey, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has written several travel books including Moon Country and Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way. He has edited poetry anthologies including one on the work of Ted Hughes. He has participated in numerous television and radio documentaries, dramatisations, and travelogues.
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been for a term of ten years. The holder of the position as at 2024 is SimonArmitage who succeeded Carol Ann Duffy in May 2019 after 10 years in office....
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attended by Hughes's widow Carol and daughter Frieda, and by the poets SimonArmitage, Blake Morrison, Andrew Motion and Michael Morpurgo. Motion paid tribute...
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remains popular in modern English renderings from J. R. R. Tolkien, SimonArmitage, and others, as well as through film and stage adaptations. The story...
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Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, consisting of poems by SimonArmitage telling the story of Lancaster's life, combined with the personal recollections...
humorous personal story of the walk, as is Walking Home by Yorkshire poet SimonArmitage, who walked north-to-south along the Pennine Way without money, relying...
characters. Poets include Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, William Empson, SimonArmitage, David Miedzianik and Andrew Marvell. Three well known sculptors emerged...
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