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Simon Armitage

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
May 25 1963
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Simon Armitage, whose The Shout was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, has published ten volumes of poetry and has received numerous honors for his work. He was appointed UK Poet Laureate in 2019

Armitage's poetry collections include Book of Matches and The Dead Sea Poems . He has written two novels, Little Green Man and The White Stuff , as well as All Points North , a collection of essays on the north of England. He has produced a dramatised version of Homer's Odyssey and a collection of poetry entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid , both of which were published in July 2006. Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA GCSE syllabus for English Literature in the United Kingdom. These include "Homecoming", "November", "Kid", "Hitcher", and a selection of poems from Book of Matches, most notably of these "Mother any distance...". His writing is characterised by a dry Yorkshire wit combined with "an accessible, realist style and critical seriousness."

Simon Armitage

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
May 25 1963
Website
Go to Website
Simon Armitage, whose The Shout was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, has published ten volumes of poetry and has received numerous honors for his work. He was appointed UK Poet Laureate in 2019

Armitage's poetry collections include Book of Matches and The Dead Sea Poems . He has written two novels, Little Green Man and The White Stuff , as well as All Points North , a collection of essays on the north of England. He has produced a dramatised version of Homer's Odyssey and a collection of poetry entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid , both of which were published in July 2006. Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA GCSE syllabus for English Literature in the United Kingdom. These include "Homecoming", "November", "Kid", "Hitcher", and a selection of poems from Book of Matches, most notably of these "Mother any distance...". His writing is characterised by a dry Yorkshire wit combined with "an accessible, realist style and critical seriousness."

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Kid

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All Points North

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Book of Matches

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Faber & Faber Poetry Diary 2021

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