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Simon Armitage:
A Short Biography
Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire.
He has published nine volumes of poetry including Killing
Time, 1999 (Faber & Faber) and Selected
Poems, 2001 (Faber & Faber) His most recent collections
are The Universal
Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, both published by Faber &
Faber in 2002. He has received numerous awards for his poetry including
the Sunday Times Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes
and a Lannan Award.
He writes for radio, television and film, and is the author of
four stage plays,
including Mister Heracles,
a version of the Euripides play The Madness of Heracles. His recent
dramatisation of The Odyssey, commissioned by the BBC, was broadcast
on Radio 4 in 2004 and is available through BBC Worldwide. He received
an Ivor Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film
Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA.
His first novel, Little
Green Man, was published by Penguin in 2001. His second novel
The White Stuff was published
in 2004.
Simon Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds and the University
of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches at Manchester
Metropolitan University. With Robert Crawford he edited The
Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945.
Other anthologies include Short
and Sweet – 101 Very Short Poems, and a selection of Ted
Hughes’ poetry, both published by Faber & Faber.
The Shout, a book of new and selected poems will be published in
the US in April 2005 by Harcourt. He is currently working on a translation
of the middle English classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
commissioned by Faber & Faber in the UK and Norton in the US.
Armitage's
Biography on the Guardian Site
Armitage's author biography on the
Guardian web site.
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.
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