He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA. Song Birds was screened at the Sun Dance Film Festival in 2006. Then we woke and were hurtling headlong for wealds and wolds, blood coursing, the Dee and the Nidd in full spate through the spinning waterwheels in the wrists and over the heart’s weir, the nightingale hip-hopping ten to the dozen under the morning’s fringe. Simon Robert Armitage, CBE, FRSL (born 26 May 1963)[1] is an English poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. It was no easy leap, to exit the engine house of the head The royal family have released a reading of The Patriarchs – An Elegy by Simon Armitage to mark the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. 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. The Hawkridge Agency Eliot. Anya Backlund He is a celebrity author. Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, a village in West Yorkshire, England. Both The Last Days of Troy and The Odyssey played at Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s Southbank. [64], 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. Zoom! 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[43][44], Huddersfield Choral Society commissioned Armitage to provide lyrics for works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Daniel Kidane, resulting in "The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash" and "We'll Sing", which were released on video in Autumn 2020. 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. The opera’s narrative poem was published in 2019 by Design for Today with illustrations by Clive-Hick-Jenkins, who designed the puppets. PO Box 461, He is characterised by a dry Yorkshire wit combined with "an accessible, realist style and critical seriousness. He studied Geography at Portsmouth University and completed an MA at … They released their debut album 'Call in the Crash Team' in 2020. was a Poetry Book Society Choice. He also contributes to Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour (BBC Radio 6 Music). Black Roses was awarded BBC Radio Best Speech Programme of 2011 and short-listed for the Ted Hughes Award that year. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2009 and 2010, Armitage presented films for BBC4 on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and on Arthurian literature. Eliot Prize. Armitage has written two novels: Little Green Man (Viking, 2001) and The White Stuff (Viking, 2004). [6] He has an older sister, Hilary. Britain’s royal family has released a montage of images in memory of Prince Philip, set to a poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. Kid and CloudCuckooLand were short-listed for the Whitbread poetry prize. It received Gold at the 2005 Spoken Word Awards. 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. Armitage wrote the script for the puppet opera Hansel and Gretel (A Nightmare in Eight Parts) which toured with Goldfield Productions in 2018. Kid was short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. kirsty@morgangreencreatives.com Each poem was carved into stones at various sites along the South Pennine watershed between Marsden and Ilkley. Simon Armitage. In 2007 he released an album of songs co-written with the musician Craig Smith, under the band name The Scaremongers. Simon Armitage… 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. Entitled The Patriarchs - An Elegy, the poem was published on the day of Philip's funeral on Saturday. The Latest: Royal family releases Philip montage set to poem Britain’s royal family has released a montage of images in memory of Prince Philip, set to a poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage The UK’s poet laureate will perform a live-streamed reading from an Aberdeen library. His first full-length collection of poems, Zoom!, was published in 1989 by Bloodaxe Books. 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. The Unaccompanied was a Poetry Book Society Choice. 845 - 677 - 8559 It became a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the 2012 TS Eliot Prize. 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. 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. In Praise of Air was the world’s first catalytic poem. Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire in 1963. http://www.blueflowerarts.com View the profiles of people named Simon Armitage. Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and was performed by Rufus Sewell. 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. 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. These included Human Geography, The Distance Between Stars, The Walking Horses, Around Robinson, and Suitcase. He was a post-graduate student at Manchester University where his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. of the bad things I have done in … Simon Armitage will take part in the event at Aberdeen Central Library later this month. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. Graham Short, a micro-engraver, meticulously carved the entire 51-word poem clearly onto a facsimile of a cancer treatment tablet. Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963 (age 57) in England. Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. [27], 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. The book version, Homer’s Odyssey – A Retelling, is published by Faber and Faber (2006) in the UK and by Norton in the US. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a moving elegy to mark the death of Prince Philip commemorating his status as a wartime hero and father figure for the nation.. His poetry’s combination of streetwise lingo and contemporary subject matters with a resourceful inventiveness and serious artistic ambition has made … in 1989. He is now a freelance writer and broadcaster. Literary Agent ‘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. [20], In 2019 he was commissioned by Sky Arts to create an epic poem and film 'The Brink' as one of 50 projects in 'Art 50' looking at British Identity in the light of Brexit. Coming across Simon Armitage’s poem, Sea Sketch, for which he drew on the diary and war time nursing experiences of Edie Appleton, I was reminded about the comfort Captain Harold Joel drew from the sea in the summer before his death, during a short break from the trenches to undergo training on the French coast. The prize is to be run by the Poetry School. [39][40] Armitage read his "Still Life", another poem about the lockdown, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 20 April 2020. Simon Armitage is also appearing at Aylsham Town Hall on Tuesday May 10 (6.30pm for 7pm), talking about and reading from some of his latest works. 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. In 2019, he was elected Honorary Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. 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. Finding himself jobless after graduation, he decided to train as a probation officer, like his father before him. The follow-up publication, Walking Away, also made the Sunday Times best-seller list for non-fiction. fax 845-677-6446 Further mainstream collections are: 2019 saw publication of Armitage’s new version of Hansel and Gretel illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Design fo… Home. 0207 240 9992 He is the author of five stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of Euripides' The Madness of Heracles. Dates of Gemini are May 21 - June 20. [21], For National Poetry Day on 1 October 2020, BT commissioned him to write "Something clicked", a reflection on lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. This work was commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers Centre Norwich. 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. 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. Both are published by Faber & Faber. Armitage will read in various library buildings for a remote, online, live audience, beginning at Ashby-de-la-Zouch on 26 April. [68] Emmeline won the 2017 SLAMbassadors national youth poetry slam for 13-18-year-olds. 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...". [23][24], Armitage's second poem as Poet Laureate, "Finishing it", was commissioned in 2019 by the Institute of Cancer Research. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. 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. This page was last edited on 9 April 2021, at 23:17. Fugitives by Simon Armitage. Also known as "boomers", are the result of the end of World War II, when birth rates across the world spiked. [54][55], 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". 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. 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. mobile 619-944-9247 The Dead Sea Poems was short-listed for the Whitbread, the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. [16] He is a vice president of the Poetry Society and a patron of the Arvon Foundation. With the help of local expert Tom Lonsdale and letter-carver Pip Hall, the poems were carved into stones at secluded sites. Throughout his career, Armitage has continued to work with smaller and specialised poetry presses. [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. [61], In March 2020 Armitage launched a podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed, also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The Death of King Arthur, a further translation, was published by Faber and Norton in 2011. He has an older sister, Hilary. In 2010, Armitage walked the 264-mile Pennine Way, walking south from Scotland to Derbyshire. A new revised edition lavishly illustrated by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins was published by Faber & Faber (2018). [56], 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". [57], 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. The Shout, a book of new and selected poems was published in the USA in 2005 by Harcourt and shortlisted for the US National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Saturday Night (Century Films, BBC2, 1996) – wrote and narrated a fifty-minute poetic commentary to a documentary about night-life in Leeds, directed by Brian Hill. His work also appears on CCEA's GCSE English Literature course. His poem 'The Patriarchs - … [6] Their only album, Born in a Barn, was released in 2010. Those born under the Gemini zodiac sign enjoy socializing and love surrounding themselves with people. Armitage’s translation of the medieval poem Pearl was published in 2016 and won the 2017 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation. Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, in 2019 Credit: ... Great-grandfathers from birth, in time they became both inner core and outer case in a family heirloom of nesting dolls. The Last Days of Troy premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in June 2014. 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. The poetry collection Still premiered at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and has been published in partnership with Enitharmon Press. Gyles Brandreth was Prince Philip's Boswell – and this intimate biography is a sparkling celebration 4/5 By Jake Kerridge 17 Apr 2021, 12:01am. [28][29][30][31], Armitage wrote "Ark" for the naming ceremony of the British Antarctic Survey's new ship RRS Sir David Attenborough on 26 September 2019. S Simon Armitage Mother, Any Distance by Simon Armitage Mothers are perhaps one of the most universal subjects of poetry, but one that is not very often read about; one can ready poems about war, or love, about family and trauma, but poems specifically about mothers such as ‘Mother, Any Distance’ , seem to be a bit of a rare breed of writing. Anya Backlund Subsequently, Northumberland National Park’s Sill Arts Programme commissioned Armitage to write six new poems for the Poems in the Air project. [67] He is married to radio producer Sue Roberts. Published on … Media Enquiries Kirsty McLachlan kirsty@morgangreencreatives.com Morgan Green Creatives Ltd. To Book a Poetry Reading The … Simon Armitage's acclaimed version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. [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. EX-PROBATION officer Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, has paid tribute to Prince Philip's distinguished career in the Royal Navy. These included Human Geography, The Distance Between Stars, The Walking Horses, Around Robinson, and Suitcase. Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) GCSE syllabus for English Literature in the United Kingdom. [70], He is a supporter of his local football team, Huddersfield Town, to whom he makes many references in his book All Points North (1996). 845 - 677 - 8559 The libraries are to be selected in alphabetical order: in March 2020 he is to visit places or libraries with names starting with "A" or "B" (including the British Library[58]), and so on until "W", "X", "Y" and "Z" in 2029. Join Facebook to connect with Simon Armitage and others you may know. [73] Armitage is the lead singer of LYR, a band he is in alongside Richard Walters and Patrick J Pearson. [62][63], In May 2020 Armitage was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Kirsty McLachlan Poet Laureate Simon Armitage reads The Patriarchs - An Elegy, written for the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral . [13], Armitage also writes for radio, television, film and stage. Simon Armitage is undoubtedly the most popular and widely known poet of his 1960s-born generation, his work having been regularly anthologised and broadcast on radio and television, his readings and festival appearances always well-attended. A beautiful poem of love and regret, ‘To His Lost Lover’ is taken from Armitage’s … The poems, complemented with commissioned wood engravings by Hilary Paynter, were also published in several limited editions under the title 'In Memory of Water' by Fine Press Poetry. 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. These sites now form the 45 mile Stanza Stones Trail. 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. 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. 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. Clerkenwell, [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. For his programme on The Odyssey, he sailed from Troy in Turkey to the Greek island of Ithaca. Armitage wrote the libretto for the opera The Assassin Tree, composed by Stuart McRae, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2006. "[36], 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. Contact. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. The band is signed to Mercury KX, part of Decca Records. They enjoy chit-chat and tend to have expression and communication very high on their list of priorities. 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. The Twilight Readings (2007) is an illustrated publication of Armitage’s first residency at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). In May 2019, Simon Armitage (b. [6] Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic. Context The poet as a young man. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in West Yorkshire. This landmark event is generally recognised to be the biggest coming together of international poets in history. Armitage is the first poet laureate who is also a DJ. Other anthologies include Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems, and a selection of Ted Hughes’ poetry. Morgan Green Creatives Ltd, To Book a Poetry Reading The song is a homage to the Stanlow Oil Refinery. 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. Literary Agent DGA (David Godwin Associates) 2nd floor, 40 Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 4RX 0207 240 9992 To enquire: philippa@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk. 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. The Dead Sea Poems was short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize. 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