Simon Armitage
Poetry
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.
His collections of poetry, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007).
Simon writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015).
His theatre work includes The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and, in 2018 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Simon Armitage is the Poet Laureate.
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