Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Simon Robert Armitage 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 Death of King Arthur, 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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- Rural and remote mental health placements for nursing students. (2000) (29)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a new verse translation (2007) (8)
- All Points North (1998) (8)
- Book of Matches (1993) (7)
- Exploitation of Structural Loads/Health Data for Reduced Life Cycle Costs (1998) (7)
- The Poetry of Birds (2009) (5)
- Walking home : travels with a troubadour on the Pennine Way (2012) (5)
- The Penguin Book Of Poetry From Britain And Ireland Since 1945 (1998) (5)
- The not dead (2008) (4)
- Little Green Man (2001) (3)
- Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist (2008) (3)
- The Dead Sea Poems (1995) (1)
- The Ascent of Ted Hughes: Conquering the Calder Valley (2013) (1)
- Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems (1999) (1)
- Gender, Sex and Embodiment (2006) (1)
- Mister Heracles, After Euripides (2000) (1)
- The Ascent of Ted Hughes (2013) (1)
- Moon Country : Further Reports from Iceland (1996) (1)
- The Universal Home Doctor (2002) (1)
- Simon Armitage, Sean O'Brien, Tony Harrison (1995) (0)
- A Week and a Fortnight (1995) (0)
- The twilight readings (2008) (0)
- EPILOGUE.: OBSERVATIONS ON TRANSLATION BY THE OXFORD PROFESSOR OF POETRY: PEARL (2019) (0)
- The White Stuff (2004) (0)
- I Speak As Someone… (2022) (0)
- The Owl and the Nightingale (2022) (0)
- Reading and Discussion: Out of the blue: order from chaos (2009) (0)
- The Shout: Selected Poems (2005) (0)
- King Arthur in the East Riding (2005) (0)
- On an Overgrown Path (2018) (0)
- Call for papers (1989) (0)
- Pressure sore points. (1995) (0)
- The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead: Adapted for the Stage (2015) (0)
- On Miles Platting Station (2007) (0)
- A Vertical Art (2022) (0)
- Last, and: Peacetime, and: Reliquary (2018) (0)
- Between consciousness and cosmos (1995) (0)
- Close Encounters of the Verse Kind: On Meeting Tony Harrison (2019) (0)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (1996) (0)
- The Six Comeuppances (2005) (0)
- The motorway service station as a destination in its own right. (2010) (0)
- Epilogue. Observations on Translation by the Oxford Professor of Poetry: Pearl (2018) (0)
- Barbara Hepworth : centenary (2003) (0)
- House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 7998, 16 June 2017: Key issues in fostering: capacity, working conditions, and fostering agencies (2017) (0)
- Short and Sweet (1999) (0)
- Science by another name (2006) (0)
- 13. The Manor (2020) (0)
- Epilogue (2005) (0)
- The Manor (2020) (0)
- Chapter and Verse (1995) (0)
- Poems of R.S. Thomas (1985) (0)
- The Two of Us (2021) (0)
- The Owl and the Nightingale (2022) (0)
- Zoom! : poetry book society choice (1989) (0)
- THE HAWKS AND THE DOVES: Raptors and Rapture in the Poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes (2021) (0)
- The Subconscious (2015) (0)
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