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Published:
18 March, 2002
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Description
Prizes
Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best First Collection 1992
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571166077 |
| ISBN10 | 0571166075 |
| Number Of Pages | 96 |
| Item Weight | 125 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 197 x 9 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
Author's Bio
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020), Blossomise (2024) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.