SIMON ARMITAGE
Saturday 13 June 3pm - Tickets - £22
An afternoon with the Poet Laureate – poems and conversation
‘Our best living poet’ Evening Standard.
An unmissable event with writer, broadcaster, translator and lyricist Simon Armitage.
With readings from new unpublished work and recent poetry including the luminous and wry New Cemetery, this will be a very special afternoon with the Poet Laureate.
After the interval Simon will be joined by writer Amanda Dalton for an informal conversation followed by audience q&a, and a book signing.
Wainsgate’s signature café bar with homemade cake will be open from 2pm.
“Armitage is some craftsman, both when he catches the light and when he casts it.”
Chicago Review of Books on ‘New Cemetery’
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His numerous awards include the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including the bestsellers Blossomise and Dwell and his major new poetry collection New Cemetery. His exhilarating verse translation of Gilgamesh is due in October.
Armitage writes, records and performs with the band LYR and has received an Ivor Novello Award for his song writing. He also writes extensively for theatre, television and radio. An award-winning dramatist, his plays The Last Days of Troy and Hansel and Gretel were performed at Shakespeare’s Globe. A regular broadcaster, Armitage presented the popular BBC Radio 4 series The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed.
His new podcast The Shed is available now. He is also the author of two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers: All Points North, Walking Home and Walking Away.
A Vertical Art brings together his vibrant public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry (2015-2019).
Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.
‘Armitage is so good with the stiletto and scalpel of the vernacular he has to hand…image-ripe
and clever, satiric, dystopian and sometimes laced with sorrow’ Sydney Morning Herald