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Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020), Blossomise (2024) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He 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 works include 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 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.

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Gilgamesh

New Cemetery: The new collection from the Poet Laureate

Human Geography

Family Lines: Poems About Parents and Parenthood

New Cemetery: The new collection from the Poet Laureate

Dwell

The Owl and the Nightingale

Blossomise

Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

The Owl and the Nightingale

Pearl

Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics

Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems

A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures

The Death of King Arthur

The Owl and the Nightingale

Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Unaccompanied

The Last Days of Troy

100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books

Walking Away

Walking Home

Short and Sweet

Seeing Stars

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Homer's Odyssey

Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid

Ted Hughes

The Universal Home Doctor

Kid

The Dead Sea Poems

Book of Matches