Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
Simon Robert Armitage CBEis an English poet, playwright and novelist. On 19 June 2015, Armitage was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, succeeding Geoffrey Hill...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 May 1963
point
I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.
active appears covers four ingredient poetry rather slim thin three tried volumes
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
ordinary miraculous
The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
hands weight razors
Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.
dad handwriting charity
Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".
karma misfortunes
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.