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Poet laureate

June 2024

  • A man, wearing a blue jacket over a blue and white patterned shirt, looks at the camera

    Simon Armitage: Poets can fight climate crisis by making us spellbound by nature

    Writer tells Hay festival about his new book, Blossomise, and his hopes to inspire people to preserve the natural world

December 2023

  • John Masefield.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: CLM by John Masefield

    The poet’s abiding grief for a mother he lost aged six arrives at large-hearted thoughts about women in general

October 2023

  • John Masefield

    RSC to put on work by poet who wrote Stratford theatre’s first words

    John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights

July 2023

  • John Betjeman in 1962

    John Betjeman dismissed as ‘songster of tennis lawns’ in 1967 search for poet laureate

    Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidates

April 2023

  • Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    ‘I’m a CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage on his radical roots and rock star dreams

    When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?

January 2023

  • SIMIC<br>** ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5 **Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic, pictured May 13, 2003, in New York, has been nominated for a prestigious National Book Award for the third time. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

    Charles Simic, Pulitzer prize-winning poet, dies at age 84

    The Serbian-American poet, who was the US poet laureate from 2007-2008, won the Pulitzer in 1990 for The World Doesn’t End

September 2022

  • Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with flowers

    Poet laureate honours Queen Elizabeth II with new work, Floral Tribute

    Simon Armitage’s poem, which spells out the late monarch’s name acrostically, pays homage to ‘a promise made and kept for life’
  • Braemar, Scotland.

    Floral Tribute, a poem for the Queen by Simon Armitage

    The poet laureate pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
  • Queen Elizabeth receives Simon Armitage to present him with the Queen's gold medal for poetry upon his appointment as poet laureate during an audience at Buckingham Palace, London in May 2019

    Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate

    Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

July 2022

  • Ted Hughes, 1966 GNM Archive ref: JHB/2/1/49

    Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold

    The recently found notebook of fragments and finished work has been described as the poet’s ‘most direct’ response to the suicide of his partner and daughter in 1969

March 2022

  • Simon Armitage.

    Poet laureate Simon Armitage writes Ukraine war poem Resistance

  • Ukraine Poem

    Resistance by Simon Armitage

February 2022

  • Philip Larkin outside Hull University library where he worked as a librarian

    Brief letters
    Pomp, circumstance and very bad poetry

  • Queen Elizabeth

    This be the verse for the Queen’s jubilee: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth II

January 2022

  • Derelict bird box in lime tree © Maria Nunzia @Varvera

    Country diary
    Country diary: The bird box and tree trunk are no longer separate things

    Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Like our fleeting winter, this box is merely an impression of what it once was, and what it should be

April 2021

  • Amanda Gorman drew widespread acclaim for her reading at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration.

    Amanda Gorman says she has declined around $17m in deals since inauguration

    The American poet will grace Vogue’s May issue and spoke about being conscious of ‘taking commissions that speak to’ her

January 2021

  • Amanda Gorman has signed to IMG Models.

    Amanda Gorman signs modeling contract after star turn at inauguration

    Already a fashion sensation, the 22-year-old joins IMG Models, the same agency as Gigi and Bella Hadid

November 2020

  • Ted Hughes, in 1966.

    British Library apologises for linking Ted Hughes to slave trade

    The poet had been wrongly included among more than 300 figures whose collections were associated with wealth obtained from colonial violence

June 2020

  • Simon Armitage performing with his band The Scaremongers in Presteigne, Powys

    ‘There’s no such thing as a socially distanced mosh pit’: artists on the thrill of the crowd

    Poet laureate Simon Armitage and comedian Lolly Adefope love the buzz of performance. Here’s what we’re all missing

May 2020

  • Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

    'I came face to face with Dennis Nilsen': poet laureate Simon Armitage

    The former probation officer tells Desert Island Discs of the time he was in ‘a tiny room’ with the serial killer
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