Simon Robert Armitage CBE (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist. Read full biography of Simon Armitage →
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose... →
I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.
The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always... →
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
We don't know where print is going.
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I... →
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based... →
I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not... →
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... →
It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the... →
Simon Robert Armitage CBE (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist.