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Simon Armitage is the current national Poet Laureate (2019-2029). He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and was elected to serve as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford for 2015-2019. In Spring 2019, he held the post of Holmes Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA.
Simon Armitage. Simon Armitage was born and lives in West Yorkshire. He has taught at Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, The University of Sheffield, and in 2015 was appointed Oxford University Professor of Poetry. He has published nine full-length collections of poetry, including Paper Aeroplane ...
Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Princeton University, and Manchester Metropolitan University. His Oxford lectures are available online in the University of Oxford podcast series Poetry with Simon Armitage. He lives in West Yorkshire.
Simon Robert Armitage CBE , 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.
I write and perform with the band Land Yacht Regatta (LYR) whose debut album Call In The Crash Team was released in May 2020. In 1999 I was named the Millennium Poet. In 2004 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2010 I was made CBE for services to poetry and in 2018, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Simon Armitage - Is the 'I' of your poems a fictional character? from The Poetry Archive on Vimeo. A. There is a kind of fictional Simon Armitage that pops up in a lot of the poems, even those that seem overtly autobiographical. Poets are always complaining that when they use the word 'I' in a poem, readers are very quick to assume that, you ...
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Aug 31, 2024 · Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees], England) is a 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 have been widely anthologized and are broadly popular.
