Armitage:
Writing the City
The good people of the fine poetry website zafusy
have linked to our link to Writing the City. Thanks.
King
Arthur in the East Riding (Pocket Penguins)
Taken from All
Points North.
The
Shout: Selected Poems
Available from Amazon.
Paperback
of The White Stuff Published
Available from Amazon.
Armitage
wins Spoken Word Award
Armitage's translation of The Odyssey wins the Gold
Award for Abridged fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005. The
BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring
adventure starred Tim McInnerny and Amanda Redman.
Jerusalem
at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
Armitage's play, Jerusalem, which first appeared
in All
Points North, is being performed in Leeds.
Writing The City
Saturday 19 November, 2.30pm
A new collaboration with BBC Radio 3, this live event celebrates
the city of Leeds and features new work by writers including Simon
Armitage and Alan Plater. It will be broadcast on Radio 3 on 15
January. Tickets £10/£8
The following poem, KX, was commissioned and written in early 2005
for the book From
Here To Here, stories inspired by London’s Circle Line,
published by Cyan
Books. It was published by the Independent
on Sunday in response to the events in London on the 7th July
2005, and will also be published by Fulcrum
magazine in the US.
KX
Northerner, this is your stop. This longhouse
of echoing echoes and sooted glass,
this goth pigeon hangar, this diesel roost
is the end of the line. Brace and be brisk,
commoner, carry your heart like an egg
on a spoon, be fleet through the concourse, primed
for that point in time when the world goes bust,
when the unattended holdall or case
unloads its cache of fanaticized heat.
Here’s you after the fact, found by torchlight,
being-less, heaped, boned of all thought and sense.
The camera can barely look. Or maybe,
just maybe, you live. Here’s you on the News,
shirtless, minus a limb, exiting smoke
to a backdrop of red melt, onto streets
paved with gilt, begging a junkie for help.
Armitage First Out of the Box
When Foyles
opened their new shop on the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London,
the first book onto shelf was Dead
Sea Poems. This photo commemorates this big moment for Foyles,
their first shop outside their Charing Cross Road flagship store,
at which The White Stuff
was launched:
Rip
It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984
Armitage adds a quote to the front of Simon
Reynolds book Rip
It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984 about Post
Punk.
It
Ain't What You Do
Tom Stafford,
co-author of Mind Hacks,
has included a transcript of It
Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You on the idiolect
website.
Armitage
and VE Day
Five has signed up Simon Armitage to provide lyrics for a documentary
commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the second world
war in May. This
extract appeared in The
Guardian.
Simon
on Internet Movie Database
A brief summary of Armitage's excursions in cinema.
Armitage
on contemporarywriters.com
Summary piece from the Contemporary
Writers mini site on the British
Council web site. Includes a biography and critical perspective
by Peter Forbes.
Simon
Armitage on wikipedia
Biography and links on the online encyclopedia, wikipedia.
York
Notes on Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage
By David
Pinnington. £4.99 on Amazon.
Simon
Armitage- A Study Guide
A guide written for students and teachers who are preparing for
GCSE exams in English literature.
Armitage's
Biography
Armitage's author biography on the Guardian
web site.
The
Stone Beach
Armitage's poem The
Stone Beach, taken from The
Universal Home Doctor, on the Guardian
web site.
Simon
and Ted
Armitage has selected poems for Ted
Hughes Selected Poems. He also wrote a great introduction.
Simon
in the Guardian
The Prize Quiz in G2,
the Guardian Supplement
has been set by Simon this week, (w/c 22/03/04). You can compete
on line, or buy a copy of the newspaper, find the television listings
and go back a page.
Feltham
Sings Wins an Ivor Novello
The awards seem to be coming thick and fast for Simon Armitage at
the moment. He just won an Ivor
Novello award for Feltham
Sings. The award cimes in the Category of Best Original Music
for Television, and he wins it in conjunction with Dextrous.
Feltham
Sings Wins a BAFTA
Armitage won his most prestigious award on the 23rd April, a BAFTA,
for Feltham
Sings. Made with Century Films/Channel 4, Feltham Sings stars
young offenders at HMP Feltham.
Moving
to the Yorkshire Muse's Beat
Gary Day of De Montfort University
interviews Simon about Yorkshire Poetry and The
Universal Home Doctor for the Times
Educational Supplement.
Poet
of the People
Aidan Smith of the Scotsman
talks to Simon Armitage about poetry, prose, pop music and The
Universal Home Doctor.
Rage
To Order
Phillip Crymble's review of 'Five
Eleven Ninety Nine'.
Universal
Home Doctor
Armitage's latest collection of poems, The
Universal Home Doctor was published on the 19th August.
Travelling
Songs
At the same time as Universal
Home Doctor, Faber are publishing a smaller collection of Armitage's
poems called Travelling
Songs. It's a bumper time for Armitage fans.
Little
Green Man
Little Green
Man is out in paperback.
Review
of Mr Heracles
Kathleen Riley's review of Mr Heracles at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
The
Convergence Of The Twain
Armitage's poem "The Convergence Of The Twain", about the tragic
events of September 11th, appears on the BBC
Radio 4 website.
Sydney
Morning Herald
This piece on the Sydney Morning Herald contains good biographical
information.
Selected
Poems
Armitage's "Selected
Poems" is out now, taken from his 6 collections so far.
Little
Green Man
Armitage's first novel, Little Green Man, was published on the 2nd
August, published by Viking
Hardback and available for £12.99.
Mexican
Poetry Conference
In January, Armitage will be reading in San Miguel at the Mexican
Poetry Conference.
Neccessary
Wobbles
Alexis Harley's long essay looks at Simon Armitage and reader-author
relations.
Ben
Rice: Dingo Lingo
Armitage reviews Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice. The review
appeared in the Winter 2000 edition of Arete
magazine.
The
Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945
Armitage has edited another anthology of poetry. This volume, for
Penguin, looks at British writing since 1945. Starting with Edwin
Muir and ending with Kate Clancy, the book contains poems by 141
different poets, including Wendy Cope, Glyn Maxwell and John Cooper
Clarke. Includes the introduction in full.
Mr
Heracles
Simon Armitage's latest book is a modern interpretation of the Euripedes
play "Heracles". The play is being performed at
West Yorkshire Playhouse, directed by Simon Godwin.
Mr
Heracles - review by Jo Balmer
Jo Balmer, the Editor of the Bloodaxe
anthology "Contemporary Women Poets" reviews
Mr Heracles
Audio
Armitage has released his work on cassette. All
Points North (Penguin) contains Armitage's prose collection
read by himself. Wild Blue Yonder
(Penguin) is Armitage reading poems from Kid, Book of Matches and
the Dead Sea Poems. The Poetry Quartets:
1 from Bloodaxe, features Armitage reading from Zoom!. Also
reading their own work are Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Glyn Maxwell
(who co-wrote Moon
Country). The collection "Short
and Sweet" is edited by Armitage, read by Eileen Atkins, Alex
Jennings, Andrew Sachs and Timothy West.
an
Anthology of Local Poetry
Armitage first appeared in print in the Huddersfield anthology,
"an Anthology of Local Poetry". Included here are his first two
published poems, "Things that once were" and "Two Go Into Winter".
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