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Profile of Simon Armitage
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Simon Armitage |
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26th May 1963 |
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Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963 in Huddersfield) is a British poet, playwright and novelist. He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, where he lives, and at the University of Iowa.
After much work in film, radio and television, and a lot of published poetry, Armitage wrote All Points North (1999), a collection of essays on the north of England. The novel Little Green Man followed in 2001, and a second novel, White Stuff in 2004.
Bibliography
Poetry
- Zoom!, collection (1989)
- Xanadu, collection (1992)
- Kid, collection (1992) — Winner of the 1992 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.
- Book of Matches, collection (1993)
- 'The Dead Sea Poems, collection (1995)
- 'Cloud Cuckooland, collection (1997)
- "Killing Time (poem)", thousand-line poem, commissioned for the Millennium (1999)
- Selected Poems, collection ([[2001)
- The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, collections published together (2002)
Novels
- Little Green Man (2001)
- White Stuff (2004)
Other
- Moon Country, co-written with Glyn Maxwell (1996)
- Eclipse, stage play (1997)
- All Points North, essays/"travel guide" (1999)
- Mister Herakles, stage play (2000)
- Jerusalem, stage play (2005)
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