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Simon Armitage

July 2024

  • Fans at Boxpark Wembley watching England’s Euro 2024 semi-final against the Netherlands on Wednesday night.

    Brief letters
    England knocking on heaven’s door at the Euros

    Brief letters: Bob Dylan and Euro 96 | Football team’s multicultural success | Sporting poetry | Country diary politics | MPs taken for a ride

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

March 2024

  • Yoshino cherry blossom at Kingston Lacy in Dorset.

    Simon Armitage releases spring-themed poetry collection celebrating blossom

    Poet laureate produces 10 poems, haiku and a musical EP, working with National Trust as it renews its blossom campaign

January 2024

  • The library in the doll’s house, a 1:12 scale replica on an Edwardian residence, that was given as a gift from the nation to Queen Mary after the first world war.

    Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum

  • A recording underway in The Archers’ studio in Birmingham.

    The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved

October 2023

  • Simon Armitage in the Arctic with an iceberg behind him

    ‘Washy clouds and a weepy sky floating upside down’: Simon Armitage’s Arctic expedition

    The poet laureate faces the climate crisis head-on in Svalbard, and presents a new poem, The Summit

June 2023

  • Britain's Forgotten Pensioners: Dispatches<br>PIctured: Doreen in her home

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the devastating stories of pensioners living in poverty

    This powerful documentary is a must-watch. Plus: intriguing period drama The Gallows Pole continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

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?

March 2023

  • Armitage’s poem pays tribute to the plum tree.

    Simon Armitage savours spring ‘ecstasy and melancholy’ on World Poetry Day

    Poet laureate celebrates a plum tree in poem commissioned by the National Trust for its blossom campaign

January 2023

  • (From left) Inder Goldfinger, Corinne Bailey Rae and Simon Armitage

    Leeds 2023: city to kick off year-long festival with ‘epic’ opening ceremony

    Organisers plough on with plans after Brexit meant Leeds missed chance to be European capital of culture

December 2022

  • Heading for Hay festival 2023 … (from left) Margaret Atwood, Simon Armitage and Dua Lipa.

    ‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup

    Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage

November 2022

  • Composite of head shots of actors Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Tilda Swinton

    Down the rabbit hole
    What connects The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and poet Simon Armitage?

    By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureate

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’

August 2022

  • Philip Larkin in Hull, 1973.

    The week in audio: Larkin Revisited; In Suburbia; Inheritors of Partition; Out of Afghanistan

    Simon Armitage unpicks Philip Larkin while Ian Hislop explores the land of net curtains. Elsewhere, the legacy of Partition and the thoughts of Afghan refugees in Britain

May 2022

  • oak tree

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Last Hope by Ben Wilkinson

    This version of a sonnet by the French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine has a down-to-earth lyricism recalling Philip Larkin’s

April 2022

  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Royal family shares poem in tribute to the late Prince Philip by poet laureate

    The Patriarchs – An Elegy shared via royal social media accounts on first anniversary of Duke of Edinburgh’s death

March 2022

  • Vintage toned image of an open diary on a wooden desk, besides the laptop computer and a film camera.

    Brief letters
    Verses in solidarity with those under fire

    Brief letters: A poem for Ukraine | Artists turned war heroes | Swearing at snails | On the road in Herefordshire | Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed
  • Simon Armitage.

    Poet laureate Simon Armitage writes Ukraine war poem Resistance

    Armitage calls his piece a ‘refracted version of what is coming at us in obscene images through the news’
  • Ukraine Poem

    Resistance by Simon Armitage

    Here is the laureate’s poem about the invasion of Ukraine, written in solidarity with those under fire

February 2022

  • Simon Armitage and John Tiffany.

    Ode to a Twitter spat: Simon Armitage and John Tiffany’s bird play

    Poet laureate joined by theatre director to stage reading of medieval poem The Owl and the Nightingale
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