SIMON ARMITAGE:I think the end of the poem, I'm afraid to say ... stamped with today's date, riding the air with other such futures, all unlived in and now fully extinct. SIMON ARMITAGE:I'm ...

Over the course of six short clips, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of some of his most famous poems. These clips are from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Suitable for ...

This isn’t the first time Simon Armitage has written a poem dedicated to the Queen. To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, he wrote a poem called Queenhood, a seven-part poem ...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, one of Yorkshire’s most feted writers, has formed a band with musicians Richard Walters and Patrick Pearson. Words: Duncan Seaman Recent Poetry School Digital Poet in ...

In the second half (really more like the final two thirds, time-wise), Armitage is joined onstage by LYR, his band Land Yacht ...

Simon Armitage said the centre would create a lasting legacy from his tenure of Poet Laureate Plans for a National Poetry Centre in Leeds are being developed to mark the appointment of Simon ...

That's the place that the poem is speaking from. Simon Armitage reads and analyses his poem ‘Give’, looking at both its surface and deeper meanings. Images of rough sleepers in Manchester and ...