Simon Armitage

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born

May 26, 1963 in Marsden, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.simonarmitage.com/

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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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. He lives in England.

Armitage's poetry collections include Book of Matches (1993) and The Dead Sea Poems (1995). 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 the north of England. He produced a dramatised version of Homer's Odyssey and a collection of poetry entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize), both of which were published in July 2006. Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Allian...more

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Books by Simon Armitage

Average rating: 3.91 · 1,160 ratings · 162 reviews · 48 distinct works

	Kid 3.82 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems 4.00 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	All Points North 4.01 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Seeing Stars 3.90 avg rating — 73 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Little Green Man 3.32 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Book of Matches 4.52 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings	My rating:
	Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist. Simon Armitage 3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid 3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Dead Sea Poems 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet”
― Simon Armitage

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“It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kind of unkillable, poetry. It’s our most ancient artform and I think it’s more relevant today than ever, because it’s one person saying what they really believe.”
― Simon Armitage

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“And wonder, dread and war
have lingered in that land
where loss and love in turn
have held the upper hand.”
― Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

tags: fate , poetry , tragedy

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