Just how far will obsession take you? A tale from Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage.


Simon Armitage 

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is the current UK Poet Laureate (2019-2029). He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford 2015-2019. In 2015 he was made CBE for Services to Poetry. Armitage has received numerous awards including one of the first Forward Prizes, an Eric Gregory Award, a major Lannan Award, a Cholmondeley Award, the Ivor Novello Award for song-writing, the Television Society Award for Documentary and the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. He has written three best-selling nonfiction books and writes, records and performs with the band LYR. In 2017 he won the PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation and was awarded the 2018 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.  


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