Simon Armitage

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He has taught creative writing at the University of Leeds and the University of Iowa, and he served as a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008. He has produced literary, history, and travel shows for BBC Radio 3 and 4; and since 1992, he has produced and presented a number of TV documentaries. He was Artist in Residence at London's South Bank from 2009 to 2012, and Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield in February 2011. He was appointed as the first Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds in October 2017. Following Carol Ann Duffy's retirement, he was named Poet Laureate for ten years in 2019.

Zoom! Armitage's first book-length poetry collection. In 1989, the first book was published. It featured artwork published in three pamphlets in 1986 and 1987, as well as some new poems. Book of Matches (1993) and The Dead Sea Poems (1995). He has written two books, Little Green Man (2001) and The White Stuff (2004), as well as All Points North (1998), a series of essays on Northern England. He produced a dramatized version of Homer's Odyssey as well as a collection of poetry titled Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (shortlisted for the T.S.) Both were announced in 2006 and Eliot Prize (which was also published in 2006. Armitage's poems appear in several British GCSE English Literature syllabuses for English Literature. He is characterized by his dry Yorkshire wit, as well as "an easy, realist style, and critical seriousness." Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007), his translation for The Norton Anthology of English Literature, was published in 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.

Armitage wrote six new poems on his walks on the Stanza Stones Trail, which runs through 47 miles (76 kilometers) of the Pennine region. The poems were carved into stone at secluded locations with the support of local expert Tom Lonsdale and letter-carver Pip Hall. Enitharmon Press has released a book containing the poems and the accounts of Lonsdale and Hall as a record of the trip. Fine Press Poetry's limited editions of the poems, which were complemented by commissioned wood engravings by Hilary Paynter, were also published in several limited editions under the heading 'In Memory of Water'. BT charged him to write "Something clicked" on National Poetry Day in 2020, a reflection on the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Conquistadors," Armitage's first poem, "Respect the 1969 moon landing," was published in The Guardian. The Institute of Cancer Research published Armitage's second poem, "Finishing It," in 2019. Graham Short, a micrograver, etched the entire 51-word poem onto a facsimile of a cancer treatment tablet. As part of the Mental Health Awareness Week's suicide prevention campaign, Armitage wrote "All Right" on Armitage. Mark Addy's poem is read by them, but the words appear on screen as well. On September 21, 2019 he read his poem "Fugitives," which was commissioned by the Association of Areas of Natural Beauty on Arnside Knott, Cumbria, in honour of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act's 70th anniversary, as well as the development of a heart sketched by people on the hillside. Armitage wrote "Ark" for the naming ceremony of the British Antarctic Survey's new ship RRS Sir David Attenborough's RRS Sir David Attenborough on September 26, 2019. In 2019, "the occasion horizon" was written to celebrate the opening of The Oglesby Centre, an extension to Hallé St Peter's, the Halle orchestra's venue for rehearsals, recordings, education, and small shows. "In the form of a letter-cut steel plate attached in the auditorium's entrance, the 'event horizon,' the poem is integrated into the building." "Ode to a Clothes Peg" commemorates John Keats' bicentenary, which Armitage cites as "some of the most popular in the English language"" in his six 1819 odes.

Armitage's "Astronomy for Beginners" was the first reading of his poem "Astronomy for Beginners," written to commemorate the Royal Astronomical Society's bicentenary on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House on January 12, 2020. The response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the Derbyshire "plague village" of Eyam, which self-isolated in 1665 to limit the spread of the disease's outbreak in the United Kingdom and K-lid's "Meghadta," in which a cloud conveys a message from an exile to his distant wife, is published in The Guardian on March 21, 2020. On BBC Radio 4's Today show on Friday, Armitage read his poem "Still Life," another poem about the lockdown. In Autumn 2020, an extension of his "The Omnipresent" was on view at the Southbank Centre in London. Armitage was hired by Horne-Hoad and Daniel Kidane to write lyrics for works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Daniel Kidane's "The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash" and "We'll Sing" were released on television. Armitage asked members of the choir to speak out about their lockdown experience, and the choir members collaborated to produce the two songs. On the 100th anniversary of The Unknown Warrior's burial, Armitage read "The Bed" in Westminster Abbey on November 11, 2020.

"I speak as someone" was first published in The Times in February 2021, marking the 200th anniversary of poet John Keats' death, who died in Rome on February 23, 1821. Armitage wrote Cocoon, a letter that was to mark a step in lockdown easing, which was published on BBC Radio 4's Today on March 29, 2021. Prince Philip's "The Patriarchs – An Elegy" was released on the day of his funeral, 2021. Armitage has said "I've written about a dozen laureate poems since I've been in office," but this is the first royal occasion and it seems like a big one." Armitage released "70 notes" in 2021 as a part of the Off the Shelf Festival to commemorate the creation of the Peak District National Park in 1970. Armitage's response to the 2021 Cop26 conference in Glasgow, "Futurama" was Armitage's response, "I was attempting to map the mysterious dream-like state we appear to be in, where the rules and natural laws of the old world seem to be in flux." Armitage also confirmed in November 2019 that he would donate his salary as poet laureate to create the Poetry School's Laurel Prize for a collection of poems "with nature and the earth at its center." The Poetry School will administer the competition.

Armitage wrote "Resistance" about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which was published in The Guardian on March 12, 2022. It was described as "a fresh interpretation of what is coming at us in obscene photos from the news," the president said. Armitage read his "Only Human" at York Minster on March 23, 2022, during a service on the second annual National Day of Reflection to commemorate lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic; the poem will be inscribed in a garden of remembrance at the Minster. Armitage wrote "Queenhood" for Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in June 2022. It was published in The Times on June 3rd and as a limited-edition pamphlet that was sold in commercial stores (ISBN 9780579606) and on the royal.uk website. On September 13, 2022, he released "Floral Tribute" to commemorate Elizabeth II's death; it takes the form of a double acrostic in which the first letters of each of its two stanzas spell "Elizabeth." On BBC News at Ten, he outlined and read the poem later that day. Armitage wrote "Transmission Report," which was broadcast on The One Show on October 24, 2022, read by a cast of BBC stars including Brian Cox, Michael Palin, Mary Berry, and Chris Packham, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Armitage reported in November 2019 that he would spend a week touring five to seven libraries in the hopes of introducing a guest poet each spring. The libraries were supposed to be arranged alphabetically, so he would visit places or libraries beginning with "A" or "B" (including the British Library) in March 2020 and "Z" in 2029. "The letter X will be exciting," says the author. Is it possible in the United Kingdom to start with X? "I also want to find a way to include alphabet letters from other languages spoken in these islands, such as Welsh, Urdu, or Chinese, so that English can be included in those communities where English is not the first language."

The first tour took place in 2021 after a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Armitage read in various library buildings for a remote, online, live audience, beginning with Helen Watson in Ashby-de-Zouch; Burke with Amina Atiq and Eira Murphy; and Abington, where he officially opened the volunteer-run library on Saturday 1 May.

Initials C, D., Welsh Ch, and DD were among the 2022 tour guides in libraries, including initials C, D, and DD. Armitage read at Chadderton with Keisha Thompson, Fateha Alam, and Lawdy Karim; at Clevedon with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; with Patrick Jayne; at Clevedon with Patience Agbabi; and at Taigh Chearsabhagh with Kevin MacNeil; and at Tadddy University Library in Cambridge.

The initials of E, F G, and Welsh Ff and Ng will be displayed in libraries during the 2023 tour. The dates and locations for May 2022 had yet to be announced as of May 2022.

Armitage is the author of five stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a Euripides' version of The Madness of Heracles. In June 2014, The Last Days of Troy premiered at Shakespeare's Globe. In 1996, he was asked by the National Theatre in London to write Eclipse for the National Connections series, a play based on Lindsay Rimer's disappearance from Hebden Bridge in 1994 and set during the 1999 solar eclipse in Cornwall.

Armitage wrote the libretto for an opera performed by Scottish composer Stuart MacRae, The Assassin Tree, based on a Greek myth told in The Golden Bough. The opera premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland, before heading to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. narrated and wrote a fifty-minute poetic commentary to a documentary about night life in Leeds directed by Brian Hill on Saturday Night (Century Films, BBC2, 1996). Armitage walked the 264-mile Pennine Way from Scotland to Derbyshire in 2010. Despite the rejection of the free life seen in his 1993 poem "Hitcher" he continued to give poetry readings, often in exchange for pledges of food, food, or accommodation. Walking Home is his own book about his journey.

He recorded an album of songs co-written with Craig Smith under the band name The Scaremongers in 2007.

As part of a five-year programme of new artwork commissioned specifically to commemorate the centennial of the First World War, the arts programme 14–18 now selected a collection of poems by Simon Armitage. The poems are a tribute to six aerial or panoramic photographs of battlefields from the Imperial War Museum in London's archive. The poetry collection appeared at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and has been published in collaboration with Enitharmon Press.

He was hired by Sky Arts to produce The Brink, one of 50 projects in "Art 50" looking at British Identity in the aftermath of Brexit. The Brink explored how Britain's relations with Europe could be envisioned from the continent's nearest point to the rest of the continent – Kent.

Armitage's podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed, was released on BBC Radio 4 in 2020 and 2021, in which, while working on the medieval poem The Owl and the Nightingale, the poet invited a number of 20 people to come and talk with him in his garden writing shed. Armitage worked with Brian Hill on Where Did the World Go?, a "pandemic poem" that "examines life and death and weaves the whole story, as well as a new, overarching poem from Armitage that was seen on BBC Two in June 2021. In the Winter Walks series on BBC Four, he was spotted walking from Ravenscar along the old Cinder Track, a disused railway line, past Boggle Hole to Robin Hood's Bay in December 2020. Armitage unveiled Larkin Revisited, a BBC Radio 4 series honoring Philip Larkin's centennial, in August 2022, examining a single Larkin poem in each of the ten episodes.

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