The White Hart by Simon Armitage
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English - December 14, 2022 16:59 - 15 minutes - 34.8 MBPerforming Arts Arts Society & Culture northern broadsides yorkshire theatre arts performing arts culture north society & culture society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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