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. Kid and CloudCuckooLand were short-listed for the Whitbread poetry prize. [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". It became a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the 2012 TS Eliot Prize. 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. Kirsty McLachlan 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. Anya Backlund [51] He is married to radio producer Sue Roberts. Simon Armitage: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. The poster absorbed more than two tonnes of air pollution before it was turned into multiple artworks and sold in aid of charity. 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. They released their debut album 'Call in the Crash Team' in 2020. London He was appointed UK Poet Laureate in 2019 Armitage's poetry collections include Book of Matches (1993) and The Dead Sea Poems (1995). For silver-swallow swords, eat fire. He was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Simon Armitage is the current national Poet Laureate (2019-2029). The Great War: An Elegy (BBC 2, 2014), written and presented by Simon Armitage, followed seven WW1 stories and featured the new poems they inspired. Jack Watkins spoke to the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, about writing, the environment and refusing to write about Brexit. He studied geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University), graduating in 1984. Both are published by Faber & Faber. Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster was published by Pomona in 2012. The book version, Homer’s Odyssey – A Retelling, is published by Faber and Faber (2006) in the UK and by Norton in the US. Literary Agent DGA (David Godwin Associates) 2nd floor, 40 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 4RX 0207 240 9992 To enquire: philippa@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk Media Enquiries 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. Simon Armitage has worked extensively in film, radio and television. 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. A new revised edition lavishly illustrated by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins was published by Faber & Faber (2018). [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. On Simon Armitage’s website, you can find the nine poems he’s written in his first year as Britain’s poet laureate. Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, a village in West Yorkshire, England. Simon Armitage has 107 books on Goodreads with 23906 ratings. [6] He has an older sister, Hilary. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. [6][56] He is a massive music fan, especially of The Smiths. 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. 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. 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. Northampton, In 2007 he released an album of songs co-written with the musician Craig Smith, under the band name The Scaremongers. They have a daughter, Emmeline, born in 2000. Enquiries: hawkridgeagency@gmail.com, USA [26], On 21 September 2019 he read his poem "Fugitives", commissioned by the Association of Areas of Natural Beauty, on Arnside Knott, Cumbria, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, during an event which included the formation of a heart outlined by people on the hillside. [6][7], He wrote his first poem aged 10 as a school assignment. For gold-escape from locks and chains. 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. [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. MA 01061 [8], His first poetry collection was called Human Geography (1988). 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. [3], Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire,[4][5] and grew up in the village of Marsden, where his family still live. ‘Walking Home’ by Simon Armitage (Faber £16.99 hardback / £12.99 ebook) ‘Selected Poems’ by Simon Armitage (Faber, £9.99) With the help of local expert Tom Lonsdale and letter-carver Pip Hall, the poems were carved into stones at secluded sites. Simon Armitage: My life in travel 'The light in St Ives is absolutely beautiful' Comments Share your thoughts and debate the big issues. 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. MA 01061 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. Both The Last Days of Troy and The Odyssey played at Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s Southbank. The Twilight Readings (2007) is an illustrated publication of Armitage’s first residency at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). He was born in London, where he lives with his wife and three sons. More recently, Simon Armitage wrote the poetic script for  Child in Mind (BBC 4, 2017), a  commissioned documentary featuring a groundbreaking new scheme in Hull called PAUSE, which aims to break the cycle of repeat care removals. 845 - 677 - 8559 [2] 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. Around this time he began writing poetry more seriously,[6] though he continued to work as a probation officer in Greater Manchester until 1994. 6. He worked as a probation officer for six years before focusing on poetry. The Manhunt Lyrics. His subsequent memoir Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist (Viking, 2009) documents his life-long passion for popular music and his role as lead singer and lyricist with the band The Scaremongers. 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. His work also appears on CCEA's GCSE English Literature course. He won the 2017 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation and was awarded the 2018 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry. Tiger King and a bloody mary: Hilary Mantel, Simon Armitage and other writers on lockdown life. ... During her short and tragic life, Marilyn Monroe became an icon. Simon Armitage ruling planet is Mercury. From his West Yorkshire eyrie, you would imagine Simon Armitage carefully guarding his status as a detached poetic observer, seldom lacking warmth in his verse, but an outsider all the same. Black Roses was awarded BBC Radio Best Speech Programme of 2011 and short-listed for the Ted Hughes Award that year. He is characterised by a dry Yorkshire wit combined with "an accessible, realist style and critical seriousness. In 2010, Armitage walked the 264-mile Pennine Way, walking south from Scotland to Derbyshire. [19], In 2016 the arts programme 14–18 NOW commissioned a series of poems by Simon Armitage as part of a five-year programme of new artwork created specifically to mark the centenary of the First World War. [16] He is a vice president of the Poetry Society and a patron of the Arvon Foundation. Propolis published New Cemetery in 2018. fax 845-677-6446 Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) GCSE syllabus for English Literature in the United Kingdom. mobile 619-944-9247 Song Birds was screened at the Sun Dance Film Festival in 2006. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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. [53] Continuing in both her father's and grandfather's tradition, she is a member of the National Youth Theatre and a singer. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and educated at Colne Valley High School. 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. His primary income source is from being Poet. The Dead Sea Poems was short-listed for the Whitbread, the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. his bloody life in my bloody hands. 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 poems are a response to six aerial or panoramic photographs of battlefields from the archive of the Imperial War Museum in London. [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. Graham Short, a micro-engraver, meticulously carved the entire 51-word poem clearly onto a facsimile of a cancer treatment tablet. 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. Simon Armitage’s mother’s name is unknown at this time and his father’s name is under review. He is also a birdwatcher.[55]. in 1989. His works were widely anthologized and have been broadly popular. Enquiries: anya@blueflowerarts.com, 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). Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963 in Marsden, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England as Simon Robert Armitage. 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. [47][48], In May 2020 Armitage was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. He studied Geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic, and Social Work and Psychology at Manchester University. 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. by Simon Armitage | 28 May 2009. The broadcast created unprecedented feedback and listener-response. He published Zoom! Simon Armitage’s life path number is 5 Life Path Number 5 represent 'The Free Spirit'. Of all the doorways in the world to choose to sleep, I’ve chosen yours. 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Enquiries: anya@blueflowerarts.com, Poet Laureate 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. Clerkenwell, [6] During what his wife Sue described as "a bit of a mid-life crisis", Armitage and his college friend Craig Smith founded the band The Scaremongers. Armitage has written for over a dozen television films and, with director Brian Hill, pioneered the docu-musical format which lead to such cult films as Drinking for England and Song Birds. [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. PO Box 461, Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic. His other prose work includes the best-selling memoir All Points North, (Penguin 1998) which was The Yorkshire Post Book of the Year. In 2009 and 2010, Armitage presented films for BBC4 on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and on Arthurian literature. [40][41], As of December 2020[update] Armitage is working with Brian Hill on a documentary with the working title Where Did The World Go?, which "examines life and loss in lockdown and binds the whole narrative with a new, overarching poem from Armitage". For over ten years, Armitage has been a regular guest on The Mark Radcliffe Show, first on BBC Radio 1, then BBC Radio 2 and more recently on the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 6 Music. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 5 have an uncanny ability to understand the deepest esoteric & metaphysical teachings. From 2009 to 2012 he was Artist in Residence at London's South Bank, and in February 2011 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. He worked with young offenders before gaining a postgraduate qualification in social work at Manchester University in 1988. Enquiries poetlaureatecontact@gmail.com, USA The song is a homage to the Stanlow Oil Refinery. "[45][46], In March 2020 Armitage launched a podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed, also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Eliot Prize. EC1R 4RX made a Poetry Book Society Choice, 1998 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year for All Points North, 2004 Fellow of Royal Society for Literature, 2005 Spoken Word Award (Gold) for The Odyssey, 2006 Royal Television Society Documentary Award Winner for Out of the Blue, 2008 The Not Dead (C4, Century Films) Mental Health in the Media Documentary Film Winner, 2010 Seeing Stars made a Poetry Book Society Choice, 2012 The Death of King Arthur made Poetry Book Society Choice, 2015 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Leeds, Flit - (Poetry and photographs by Simon Armitage, Published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2018, 40th anniversary edition), Hansel and Gretel - (A new narrative poem by Simon Armitage, illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Published by Design for Today, 2019). He has made literary, history and travel programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4; and since 1992 he has written and presented a number of TV documentaries. 3. He is the author of five stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of Euripides' The Madness of Heracles. [21], In 2019 Armitage's first poem as Poet Laureate, "Conquistadors", commemorating the 1969 moon landing, was published in The Guardian. It’s not as if I’m holding out Produced by Simon Armitage. [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. With Lauren Laverne. He was also a regular contributor to BBC 2’s The Review Show. Life and career Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. Simon Armitage is one of very few contemporary poets who has, through his verse, become a household name. [22][23], Armitage's second poem as Poet Laureate, "Finishing it", was commissioned in 2019 by the Institute of Cancer Research. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Prior to mainstream publication, Armitage published several limited edition pamphlets with small and local poetry presses, all now highly collectable. CloudCuckooLand was short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. ‘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. He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA. 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. Clive-Hicks Jenkins’ work went on to win the V&A Illustration Award 2020 for Book Illustration. This work was commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers Centre Norwich. [52] Emmeline won the 2017 SLAMbassadors national youth poetry slam for 13-18-year-olds. I’m on the street, under the stars. Armitage wrote a sequence of six poems, In Memory of Water. In 2019 Armitage became poet laureate of Great Britain. This page was last edited on 5 January 2021, at 23:45. Flit (2018) comprises 40 poems and photographs by Armitage, who returned to YSP as poet in residence throughout 2017, its 40th anniversary year. It received Gold at the 2005 Spoken Word Awards. Armitage, Simon - Life ... Simon Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in 1953. [6] Their only album, Born in a Barn, was released in 2010. Other BBC radio plays include The Raft of the Medusa (2014) and Orpheus (2015). Remains – 2015 – By Simon Armitage (b. Armitage’s highly acclaimed translation of the Middle English classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was commissioned by Faber & Faber in the UK and Norton in the US. The Simon Armitage: Poems Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and … Each poem was carved into stones at various sites along the South Pennine watershed between Marsden and Ilkley. Armitage edited with Robert Crawford The Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (Penguin, 1998) and edited with Tim Dee The Poetry of Birds (Viking 2009). In Praise of Air was the world’s first catalytic poem. The Hawkridge Agency 845 - 677 - 8559 Simon Armitage’s birth sign is Gemini. 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. Literary Agent 5. The Scaremongers released their first album, Born In A Barn (Corporation Pop Records) in 2009; the same year they featured on BBC 2’s Culture Show and played Latitude Festival. 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. 2. He shoots a looter as a response to orders, but is unsure whether the man was armed or not. 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. PO Box 461, Eliot Prize. Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, chooses the eight tracks, book … 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. [50], Armitage lives in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, close to his family home in Marsden. For his programme on The Odyssey, he sailed from Troy in Turkey to the Greek island of Ithaca. [15], Most recently Armitage wrote the libretto for an opera scored by Scottish composer Stuart MacRae, The Assassin Tree, based on a Greek myth recounted in The Golden Bough. [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. Medusa ( 2014 ) and Orpheus ( 2015 ) where he lives with his wife and sons. 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