An Evening with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

An Evening with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
Join the Poet Laureate for this very special evening of readings, audience Q&A and book-signing. A former student in Portsmouth, Simon Armitage’s numerous awards include the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and an Ivor Novello for song writing.
Armitage’s new book
Dwell
is a stunningly illustrated collection of poems inspired by the Lost Gardens of Heligan. It follows
Blossomise
, an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and
Never Good with Horses
, which explores where poetry and song lyric converge. He will also read unpublished poems from his next book
New Cemetery.
A regular broadcaster, Armitage presented the popular BBC Radio 4 series
The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed
and, more recently,
My Poetry and Other Animals.
He
also writes, records and performs with the band LYR. He is the author of over a dozen poetry collections, two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers:
All Points North
,
Walking Home
and
Walking Away
. His acclaimed modern translation of the medieval poem
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
has sold over 100,000 copies. Armitage is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.
A Vertical Art
brings together the vibrant and engaging lectures from his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry (2015-2019).
Age advisory 11+
Photo credit: Paul Stuart Photography Ltd