Simon Armitage has 107 books on Goodreads with 23906 ratings. He has written two novels, Little Green Man (2001) and The White Stuff (2004), as well as All Points North (1998), a collection of essays on Northern England. Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963 in Marsden, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England as Simon Robert Armitage. Wry as ever. Each poem was carved into stones at various sites along the South Pennine watershed between Marsden and Ilkley. The poetry collection Still premiered at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and has been published in partnership with Enitharmon Press. His work also appears on CCEA's GCSE English Literature course. Simon Armitage: My life in travel 'The light in St Ives is absolutely beautiful' Comments Share your thoughts and debate the big issues. London It received Gold at the 2005 Spoken Word Awards. [20], In 2019 he was commissioned by Sky Arts to create an epic poem and film 'The Brink' as one of 50 projects in 'Art 50' looking at British Identity in the light of Brexit. In 2019, he was elected Honorary Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. Jack Watkins spoke to the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, about writing, the environment and refusing to write about Brexit. For coppers I can dance or sing. 2nd floor, 40 Rosebery Avenue, Morgan Green Creatives Ltd, To Book a Poetry Reading "[45][46], In March 2020 Armitage launched a podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed, also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The mystery seventh stone, sited in an unnamed location, has yet to be found. Simon was born in Baby Boomers Generation (1963). As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Simon Robert Armitage, CBE, FRSL (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. Armitage’s 2012 non fiction book Walking Home, an account of his troubadour journey along the Pennine Way, became a Sunday Times Top Ten best-seller for over a month and was shortlisted for the 2012 Portico Prize. Armitage has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes, an Eric Gregory Award, a major Lannan Award, a Cholmondeley Award, the Spoken Word Award (Gold), the Ivor Novello Award for song-writing, BBC Radio Best Speech Programme, Television Society Award for Documentary and Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. 845 - 677 - 8559 On Simon Armitage’s website, you can find the nine poems he’s written in his first year as Britain’s poet laureate. He wrote and presented Xanadu (1992), a 'poem film for television', broadcast by BBC television as part of the 'Words on Film' series, and his film about the American poet Weldon Kees was broadcast by the BBC in 1993. Its energy is that of Experience. A new revised edition lavishly illustrated by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins was published by Faber & Faber (2018). His first full-length collection of poems, Zoom!, was published in 1989 by Bloodaxe Books. [24][25], Armitage wrote "All Right" as part of Northern train operator's suicide prevention campaign for Mental Health Awareness Week. [6][56] He is a massive music fan, especially of The Smiths. In 2019, he was elected Honorary Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. As part of Britain’s 2012 Cultural Olympiad and while Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank, Armitage conceived and curated Poetry Parnassus, a gathering of world poets and poetry from every Olympic nation. Both are published by Faber & Faber. They have a daughter, Emmeline, born in 2000. He has made literary, history and travel programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4; and since 1992 he has written and presented a number of TV documentaries. From 2009 to 2012 he was Artist in Residence at London's South Bank, and in February 2011 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. Simon Armitage is one of very few contemporary poets who has, through his verse, become a household name. A book, containing the poems and the accounts of Lonsdale and Hall, has been produced as a record of that journey[18] and has been published by Enitharmon Press. With Lauren Laverne. He studied geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University), graduating in 1984. was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Jeremy Noel-Tod, "Profile: Simon Armitage". Armitage wrote a sequence of six poems, In Memory of Water. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He smiles then. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. [8], His first poetry collection was called Human Geography (1988). He shoots a looter as a response to orders, but is unsure whether the man was armed or not. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and educated at Colne Valley High School. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. It was repeated soon after its original transmission and became the most re-requested of any programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. in 1989. ‘Still’ became a WW1 centenary exhibition and then specialist illustrated book edition (Enitharmon 2016) which published Armitage’s sequence of poems in response to 26 panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme, chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, London. More recently, Simon Armitage wrote the poetic script for  Child in Mind (BBC 4, 2017), a  commissioned documentary featuring a groundbreaking new scheme in Hull called PAUSE, which aims to break the cycle of repeat care removals. The band is signed to Mercury KX, part of Decca Records. Enquiries: anya@blueflowerarts.com, Moon Country (with Glyn Maxwell, 1996, Faber & Faber), The Universal Home Doctor (2002, Faber & Faber), Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid (2006, Faber & Faber, 2008 Knopf), Seeing Stars (2010, Faber & Faber, 2011 Knopf), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014, Faber & Faber), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019, Faber & Faber), Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems (March 2020, Faber), 2017 The Unaccompanied made a Poetry Book Society Choice, 2017 Pearl, winner of PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation, Hansel and Gretel (A Nightmare in Eight Scenes). Armitage's poetry collections include Book of Matches (1993) and The Dead Sea Poems (1995). These include "Homecoming", "Extract from Out of the Blue", "November", "Kid", "Hitcher", "Remains", and a selection of poems from Book of Matches, most notably of these "Mother any distance...". 1963) This is the story of a soldier in an unnamed conflict. He is also a birdwatcher.[55]. The opera premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland, before moving to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Simon Armitage. His choice of music (eight pieces to take to an imaginary desert island) was wide-ranging but the track he would save from a flood was David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream"; his chosen book was the Oxford English Dictionary, and his luxury a tennis ball. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including The Sunday Times Author of the Year, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Award, and an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings. "[35], On 12 January 2020 Armitage gave the first reading of his poem "Astronomy for Beginners", written to celebrate the bicentenary of the Royal Astronomical Society, on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House. Audible Audiobooks ... Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist – the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate. 4.3 out of 5 stars 47. his bloody life in my bloody hands. In 2009 and 2010, Armitage presented films for BBC4 on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and on Arthurian literature. Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, chooses the eight tracks, book … Of all the doorways in the world to choose to sleep, I’ve chosen yours. Guests included Testament, Maxine Peake, Lily Cole, Antony Gormley, Sam Lee, Melanie Plimmer, Jackie Kay, Laura Ashe, and Chris Packham; the programme broadcast on 27 May was made while self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is married to Sue Roberts. While working on the medieval poem The Owl and the Nightingale he invited a series of guests to visit him in his garden writing-shed. [51] He is married to radio producer Sue Roberts. He produced a dramatised version of Homer's Odyssey and a collection of poetry entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (which was shortlisted for the T.S. Armitage has written two novels: Little Green Man (Viking, 2001) and The White Stuff (Viking, 2004). [13], Armitage also writes for radio, television, film and stage. Always alert to the beautiful ironies of life. He worked with young offenders before gaining a postgraduate qualification in social work at Manchester University in 1988. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Eliot Prize. 5 turns the mystical into the norm. 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