Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester. [6] He has an older sister, Hilary. Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and was performed by Rufus Sewell. On Simon Armitage’s website, you can find the nine poems he’s written in his first year as Britain’s poet laureate. Jeremy Noel-Tod, "Profile: Simon Armitage". ‘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. Other anthologies include Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems, and a selection of Ted Hughes’ poetry. Both The Universal Home Doctor and Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid were short-listed for the T.S. 7. Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) GCSE syllabus for English Literature in the United Kingdom. He is a writer and composer, known for Last Words (2017), Songbirds (2007) and Drinking for England (1998). Literary Agent DGA (David Godwin Associates) 2nd floor, 40 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 4RX 0207 240 9992 To enquire: [email protected] Media Enquiries Poet Simon Armitage, whose "witty and profound" work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths, is to be the UK's next Poet Laureate. He was also a regular contributor to BBC 2’s The Review Show. He won the 2017 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation and was awarded the 2018 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry. Enquiries: [email protected], USA Flit (2018) comprises 40 poems and photographs by Armitage, who returned to YSP as poet in residence throughout 2017, its 40th anniversary year. He is the author of five stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of Euripides' The Madness of Heracles. http://www.blueflowerarts.com http://www.skyartsart50.tv/projects/thebrink/, For National Poetry Day on 1 October 2020, BT commissioned him to write "Something clicked", a reflection on lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. The poster absorbed more than two tonnes of air pollution before it was turned into multiple artworks and sold in aid of charity. For silver-swallow swords, eat fire. Previously, he taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and Manchester Metropolitan University before his 2011 appointment as Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield and Visiting Professor at the University of Falmouth. 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 was a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester, where his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Like many famous people and celebrities, Simon Armitage keeps his personal life private. Both The Last Days of Troy and The Odyssey played at Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s Southbank. Clerkenwell, His primary income source is from being Poet. Simon’s next birthday is in . Kid and CloudCuckooLand were short-listed for the Whitbread poetry prize. Kid was short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. by Simon Armitage - translator, Simon Armitage, et al. Their video has a sound track of the poem being read by Mark Addy, while the words also appear on screen. Simon Armitage has 107 books on Goodreads with 23906 ratings. It became a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the 2012 TS Eliot Prize. He smiles then. Literary Agent The opera premiered at the 2006 Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland, before moving to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. [17], For the Stanza Stones Trail, which runs through 47 miles (76 km) of the Pennine region, Armitage composed six new poems on his walks. For his commitment and achievements in literature, Armitage has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Portsmouth, the University of Huddersfield, the Open University, Sheffield Hallam University and Leeds University. They released their debut album 'Call in the Crash Team' in 2020. 8. The poetic script of Black Roses was published in full by Pomona in 2012. Armitage wrote the script for the puppet opera Hansel and Gretel (A Nightmare in Eight Parts) which toured with Goldfield Productions in 2018. In just 15 years, Monroe amassed 33 acting credits, became a sex symbol, and had more than a few Hollywood romances. [14] He was commissioned in 1996 by the National Theatre in London to write Eclipse for the National Connections series, a play inspired by the real-life disappearance of a girl in Hebden Bridge, and set at the time of the 1999 solar eclipse in Cornwall. The Brink looked at the British relationship with Europe, as envisioned from the closest point of the mainland to the rest of the continent - Kent. Northampton, For his commitment and achievements in literature, Armitage has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Portsmouth, the University of Huddersfield, the Open University, Sheffield Hallam University and Leeds University. A new revised edition lavishly illustrated by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins was published by Faber & Faber (2018). Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic. Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963 in Marsden, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England as Simon Robert Armitage. 2nd floor, 40 Rosebery Avenue, The prize is to be run by the Poetry School. Remains by Simon Armitage, reprinted by permission of Pomona Books. 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. his bloody life in my bloody hands. This landmark event is generally recognised to be the biggest coming together of international poets in history. Produced by Simon Armitage. He is also professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and succeeded Geoffrey Hill as Oxford Professor of Poetry when he was elected to the four year part time appointment from 2015–2019. Jack Watkins spoke to the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, about writing, the environment and refusing to write about Brexit. In 2019 Armitage became poet laureate of Great Britain. [8], His first poetry collection was called Human Geography (1988). was a Poetry Book Society Choice. [53] Continuing in both her father's and grandfather's tradition, she is a member of the National Youth Theatre and a singer. Developed in collaboration with Professor Tony Ryan at the University of Sheffield, it used air-cleansing nanotechnology embedded in a 10m by 20m (33ft x 66ft) poster-poem which was attached to the side of a city-centre university building. [42], In November 2019 Armitage announced that he would donate his salary as poet laureate to create a new prize for a collection of poems "with nature and the environment at their heart". Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, chooses the eight tracks, book … His father Peter is a former electrician, probation officer and firefighter who is well known locally for writing plays and pantomimes for his all male panto group, The Avalanche Dodgers. [36][37], "Lockdown", first published in The Guardian on 21 March 2020, is a response to the coronavirus pandemic, and references the Derbyshire "plague village" of Eyam, which self-isolated in 1665 to limit the spread of the Great Plague of London, and the Sanskrit poem "Meghadūta" by Kālidāsa, in which a cloud carries a message from an exile to his distant wife. 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. He published Zoom! "[10] His translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) was adopted for the ninth edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and he was the narrator of a 2010 BBC documentary about the poem and its use of landscape. With Lauren Laverne. Northampton, [16] He is a vice president of the Poetry Society and a patron of the Arvon Foundation. London Simon Armitage has worked extensively in film, radio and television. It was repeated soon after its original transmission and became the most re-requested of any programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The poetry collection Still premiered at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and has been published in partnership with Enitharmon Press. He shoots a looter as a response to orders, but is unsure whether the man was armed or not. Give me the poetry, every time. The Unaccompanied was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Morgan Green Creatives Ltd, To Book a Poetry Reading 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...". Walkers in the area can now use the Poems in the Air mobile phone app to unlock the opportunity to hear each poem at the site which inspired it. ‘Walking Home’ by Simon Armitage (Faber £16.99 hardback / £12.99 ebook) ‘Selected Poems’ by Simon Armitage (Faber, £9.99) Audible Audiobooks ... Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist – the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate. Around this time he began writing poetry more seriously,[6] though he continued to work as a probation officer in Greater Manchester until 1994. 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. 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. He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA. Of all the public places, dear to make a scene, I’ve chosen here. In 2019, he was elected Honorary Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. It received Gold at the 2005 Spoken Word Awards. 5 turns the mystical into the norm. [54], He is a supporter of his local football team, Huddersfield Town, to whom he makes many references in his book All Points North (1996). Armitage is the first poet laureate who is also a DJ. The mystery seventh stone, sited in an unnamed location, has yet to be found. … His works were widely anthologized and have been broadly popular. He worked as a probation officer for six years before focusing on poetry. Armitage’s earlier dramatisation of The Odyssey, commissioned by the BBC, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004 and released on CD through BBC Worldwide. [50], Armitage lives in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, close to his family home in Marsden. [6][7], He wrote his first poem aged 10 as a school assignment. "[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. In 2012, it opened as a stage play at Manchester’s Royal Exchange and has since been produced as a BBC film, directed by Sue Roberts. He was a post-graduate student at Manchester University where his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Simon Armitage: My life in travel 'The light in St Ives is absolutely beautiful' Comments Share your thoughts and debate the big issues. Publications of this type include The Anaesthetist (Prospero Poets, 1994), The Not Dead (Pomona Press, 2008), Out of the Blue (Enitharmon, 2008) and the pamphlet The Motorway Service Station as Destination in its Own Right (Smith/Doorstep Books, 2009). The Death of King Arthur, a further translation, was published by Faber and Norton in 2011. 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During her short and tragic life, Marilyn Monroe became an icon. In 2011 Armitage wrote the BBC Radio 4 docu-drama Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, about the murder of Sophie Lancaster and with the full co-operation of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. Life and career Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. In 1999 Armitage was named the Millennium Poet. in 1989. [38][39], Armitage read "The Bed" in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 2020 at the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the burial of The Unknown Warrior. [6] Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic. Few other writers match him in accolades: in the thirty years since he was first published, he has been awarded the Forward Poetry Prize, the Keats-Shelley prize, the Hay Medal, and his reworking of The Death of King Arthur was shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. [8], He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds, the University of Iowa, and was senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Of all the doorways in the world to choose to sleep, I’ve chosen yours. In Praise of Air was the world’s first catalytic poem. "[45][46], In March 2020 Armitage launched a podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed, also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The Hawkridge Agency DGA (David Godwin Associates) [43], In November 2019 Armitage announced that each spring for ten years he would spend a week touring five to seven libraries giving a one hour poetry reading and perhaps introducing a guest poet. Armitage has served as a judge for the Forward Prize, the TS Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Griffin Prize, and the Man Booker Prize 2006. The BBC Radio 4 series, The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed, which happened to be recorded just before the UK’s 2020 coronavirus lockdown and then broadcast during it, featured Simon Armitage talking to guests about life, language and music in his shed. The follow-up publication, Walking Away, also made the Sunday Times best-seller list for non-fiction. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. http://www.blueflowerarts.com In 2000, he was the UK's official Millennium Poet and went on to judge the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize. mobile 619-944-9247 [51] He is married to radio producer Sue Roberts. 4. Black Roses and the work of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation contributed significantly to a change of UK legislation in the reporting of hate crime against sub-cultures. 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. So what’s it to be then, a Morrissey song or an Armitage poem? He is characterised by a dry Yorkshire wit combined with "an accessible, realist style and critical seriousness. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Armitage has served as a judge for the Forward Prize, the TS Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Griffin Prize, and the Man Booker Prize 2006. Seeing Stars was short-listed for the TS Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Contact. 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. A life in writing: Simon Armitage 'Poems that wave flags, campaign and crusade often fall flat on their arse. He was born in the Year of the Rabbit. With the help of local expert Tom Lonsdale and letter-carver Pip Hall, the poems were carved into stones at secluded sites. Published in 2007, it has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide to date and appears in its entirety in the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Simon Armitage, in full Simon Robert Armitage, (born May 26, 1963, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees], England), British poet, playwright, and novelist whose poetry is attuned to modern life and vernacular language and has been regarded as both accessible and revelatory. 4.3 out of 5 stars 47. [34], "Ode to a Clothes Peg" celebrates the bicentenary of John Keats' six 1819 odes of which Armitage says "Among his greatest works, the poems are also some of the most famous in the English Language. 5. 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. Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, a village in West Yorkshire, England. He studied geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University), graduating in 1984. [22][23], Armitage's second poem as Poet Laureate, "Finishing it", was commissioned in 2019 by the Institute of Cancer Research. Armitage was awarded the CBE for services to poetry in 2010 and presented with the Hay Medal for Poetry at the 25th Hay Festival in 2012. Armitage’s translation of the medieval poem Pearl was published in 2016 and won the 2017 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation. Further mainstream collections are: 2019 saw publication of Armitage’s new version of Hansel and Gretel illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Design for Today) which originated as the puppet opera Hansel and Gretel (A Nightmare in Eight Scenes) and toured the UK in 2018. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, broadcaster Vick Hope, Catherine Mayer on the loss of her husband Andy Gill, a listener stuck for 9 days on Mont Blanc and Skin's Inheritance Tracks. Blue Flower Arts, LLC EC1R 4RX Armitage’s theatre plays include Mister Heracles, a version of the Euripides play The Madness of Heracles; Jerusalem, commissioned by West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Last Days of Troy, commissioned by Manchester Royal Exchange, and The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, a 2015 English Touring Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse co-production. Personal Life. Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic. Simon Armitage. Simon Armitage: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. Eliot. I’m on the street, under the stars. Simon Armitage Simon Armitage's brilliant, hilarious, deadpan memoir of a lifetime's worth of gigs From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core. 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. 1 /1 Simon Armitage: My life in travel. [49], In April 2020, in a short interview on the BBC 6 Music show Guy Garvey's Finest Hour, Armitage chose the track "Stanlow" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, taken from their 1980 album Organisation. The Last Days of Troy premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in June 2014. Along the route he stopped to give poetry readings, often in exchange for donations of money, food or accommodation, despite the rejection of the free life seen in his 1993 poem "Hitcher", and has written a book about his journey, called Walking Home.[9]. These sites now form the 45 mile Stanza Stones Trail. MA 01061 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’s many contributions to BBC Radio 4 include his co-hosting of Armitage and Moore’s Guide to Popular Song and his role as a reviewer for the weekly arts programme Front Row. [52] Emmeline won the 2017 SLAMbassadors national youth poetry slam for 13-18-year-olds. Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, shares the soundtrack of his life. For gold-escape from locks and chains. This page was last edited on 5 January 2021, at 23:45. 0207 240 9992 His work also appears on CCEA's GCSE English Literature course. [27][28][29][30], Armitage wrote "Ark" for the naming ceremony of the British Antarctic Survey's new ship RRS Sir David Attenborough on 26 September 2019. The Dead Sea Poems was short-listed for the Whitbread, the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. [47][48], In May 2020 Armitage was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. He subsequently served as a probation officer in Oldham until 1993. Zoom! 845 - 677 - 8559 [9][10] In October 2017 he was appointed as the first Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. 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. Finding himself jobless after graduation, he decided to train as a probation officer, like his father before him. [57] Armitage is the lead singer of LYR, a band he is in alongside Richard Walters and Patrick J Pearson. Wry as ever. [email protected] Eliot Prize. A Brief Period of Rejoicing, a 30 minute film-poem commissioned by Channel 5 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of VE Day, was performed by Sheila Hancock. For coppers I can dance or sing. This week, he presents Art 50, an ambitious four-part series on Sky Arts that showcases 50 artistic interpretations of what being British means in 2019, from the likes of poet Simon Armitage and musician Nitin Sawhney. Subsequently, Northumberland National Park’s Sill Arts Programme commissioned Armitage to write six new poems for the Poems in the Air project. In 2007 he released an album of songs co-written with the musician Craig Smith, under the band name The Scaremongers. 2. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and educated at Colne Valley High School. Simon Armitage is the current national Poet Laureate (2019-2029). Those who walk a Life Path with Number 5 have an uncanny ability to understand the deepest esoteric & metaphysical teachings. He received an undergraduate degree from Portsmouth University in geography, followed by a master's degree in social work from Manchester University where he researched the impact of television violence on young offenders. 845 - 677 - 8559 Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963, in the village of Marsden, in West Yorkshire, England. Simon Armitage is a Vice President of the Poetry Society, a Patron of the Arvon Foundation, a Patron of the Friends of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a Patron of the Wordsworth Trust, and Official Patron of the Elmet Trust. [31][32][33], "the event horizon" was written in 2019 to commemorate the opening of The Oglesby Centre, an extension to Hallé St Peter's, the Halle orchestra's venue for rehearsals, recordings, education and small performances. He earned a BA from Portsmouth University in geography, and an MS in social work from Manchester University, where he studied the impact of televised violence on young offenders. Simon Armitage is close to death, geographically speaking. [24][25], Armitage wrote "All Right" as part of Northern train operator's suicide prevention campaign for Mental Health Awareness Week. Enquiries: [email protected], 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). The values are adventure, movement, change. From 2010 to 2012, Armitage worked with letter-carver Pip Hall and landscape designer Tom Lonsdale on the Stanza Stones project hosted by Ilkley Literature Festival. Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster was published by Pomona in 2012. 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