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Writing
Novels
Little
Green Man
Armitage's first novel, published by Viking
Hardback on the 2nd August 2001. Also available in paperback.
The
White Stuff
Armitage's second novel, published by Viking
Hardback on the 5th Feb, 2004.
Poetry
Zoom
Armitage's first book-length collection, published by Bloodaxe
in 1989. It made Poetry Book Society Choice and was short-listed
for the Whitbread Prize.
Xanadu
Armitage's "Poem Film for Television", made in conjunction
with BBC2 for the series "Words on Film". It is set on the
Ashfield Valley Estate in Rochdale, Lancashire, where Armitage
worked as a Probabation Worker. The Estate consisted of 26
alphabetically named flats, including "Xanadu".
Kid
The book-length successor to "Zoom!", in 1992, Armitage won
the "Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year" for his first
Faber and Faber collection "Kid".
Book
of Matches
Split into 3 sections, "Book of Matches" opens with a sequence
of psychological self-portraits told during the length of
time it takes a match to burn, including the G.C.S.E./N.E.A.B.-studied
poem "I am very bothered when I think".
The middle section contains 14 unrelated poems. The collection
ends with a sequence about the poet's marriage.
Dead Sea Poems
The Dead Sea Poems was published in 1995 by Faber & Faber.
The collection finishes with the much-admired long poem "Five
Eleven Ninety Nine". The Dead Sea Poems was shortlisted
for The Forward Prize, The Whitbread Prize and the T.S. Eliot
Prize.
Cloudcuckooland
CloudCuckooLand contains the play "Eclipse", commissioned
by the National Theatre for performance by young adults. The
book also contains the poetic sequence The Whole of The Sky,
eighty eight poems in total, one for every constellation in
the heavens.
Killing
Time
In 1999, Armitage was appointed by the Poetry Society as Writer
in Residence for the New Millenium Experience Company and
commissioned to write the one-thousand-line poem Killing Time.
The poem was also broadcast on New Year's Day, 2000 as a dramatised,
full-length feature film, starring Christopher Eccleston,
and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Selected
Poems
Armitage's "Selected Poems", published by Faber and Faber,
taken from his 6 collections to date.
Travelling
Songs
Published at the same time as Universal
Home Doctor, Travelling
Songs is 'a handful of lyrics and verses written over
a number of years'.
Universal
Home Doctor
Launched simultaneously with Travelling
Songs, the Universal
Home Doctor is 'Armitage's most personal collection yet'.
Audio
All
Points North
Armitage reads extracts from "All Points North".
Killing
Time
The reading of the Millenium-commissioned poem "Killing Time"
by the author himself.
Wild
Blue Yonder
Armitage reads extracts from Kid,
Book of Matches
and the Dead Sea
Poems.
The
Poetry Quartets
Four poets - Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and
Glyn Maxwell - read from their Bloodaxe collections.
Short
and Sweet
Poems from the collection Short
and Sweet, read by Eileen Atkins, Alex Jannings, Andrew
Sachs and Timothy West.
Film (including)
Xanadu
(BBC 2 Words On Film, 1992) - Wrote
and presented a thirty-minute film in verse, set on a housing
estate in Lancashire.
Looking
For Robinson
(BBC2, 1993) - Wrote and presented a fifty-minute film on
the life and work of American poet Weldon Kees, in prose and
verse.
One
Foot In The Past
(BBC2, 1993) - Wrote and presented a ten minute film in verse
for BBC2's heritage and landscape programme.
Building
Sights
(BBC2, 1995) - Wrote and presented a ten minute film for BBC2's
contemporary architecture programme.
Words
From Jerusalem
(BBC1, 1995) - Wrote and presented a commissioned poem for
Easter.
Saturday
Night
(Century Films, BBC2, 1996) - Wrote and narrated a fifty minute
poetic commentary to a documentary about night-life in Leeds.
Drinking
for England
(Century Films, BBC2, 1998) - Wrote poetry and song for a
fifty minute documentary.
Killing
Time
(Century Films, Channel 4) - 90 minute televised version of
the millennium poem, transmitted on New Year’s day 2000.
The
Tyre
(Century Films, Channel 4 2001) - Feature film based on poem
of same name.
Feltham
Sings
(Century Films, Channel 4 2002) – Wrote poetry and song
lyrics for a docu-drama set in Feltham Young Offenders Institution.
2003 BAFTA winner. Winner of Ivor Novello award for best music
for television.
Pornography:
The Musical
(Century Films, Channel 4 2003) – Wrote poetry and song
lyrics for docu-drama about women working in the pornography
industry.
Little
Green Man
(BBC Films) Forthcoming – full length feature film. Author
and screenwriter.
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Prose
Moon
Country
Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell follow the steps of Auden
and MacNeice to Iceland.
All
Points North
The North, Armitage says, begins where the goalpost of the
M1 meets the crossbar of the M62. Published in 1998, All Points
North. This best-selling memoir won the Yorkshire Post Book
of the Year and was serialised on BBC Radio 4 as their Book
of the Week. It's eagerly awaited follow up, The Great North
Show, will be published by Penguin in 2007.
Drama
Mr
Heracles
Commissioned by the Yorkshire Playhouse, Mr Heracles, published
in 2000, is a modern look at the myth of heracles.
Selections
Ted
Hughes
Poems selected by Simon Armitage. Includes a 6 page foreword
by Armitage.
Anthologies
Short
and Sweet
Each poem is less than a page long.
The
Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945
Edited in conjunction with Robert Crawford, "The Penguin Book
of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945" starts with
Edwin Muir and ends with Kate Clanchy.
Pamphlets
Small
Press Publications
Armitage first appeared in print in the small presses of the
North of England, including the magazines the North, the Wide
Skirt and Slow Dancer. The pamphlets were an off-shoot of
these magazines.
an Anthology of Local Poetry
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".
Libretti
A
Tree Full of Monkeys
Live on BBC Radio 3 from the Baltic
Gallery, Gateshead, 2002.
Tachograph
Armitage wrote the Libretto for Tachograph, composed by Diana
Burrell. It was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall,
1993.
Radio (including)
The
Mark Radcliffe Show
Contributor/presenter, BBC Radio 1, 1995 -1998
Second
Draft from Saga Land
Six programmes for BBC Radio 3, retracing the footsteps of
W.H.Auden and Louis MacNeice during their visit to Iceland
in 1936.
Eyes
of a Demigod
Forty-minute commissioned programme on politician Victor
Grayson in prose and verse, BBC Radio 3.
The
Amherst Myth
BBC Radio 4. Armitage wrote and presented forty-minute documentary
feature on Emily Dickinson.
Trading
Places
A series of ten interviews with leading British, Irish and
American poets.
Points
of Reference
BBC Radio 4. Simon wrote and presented four thirty-minute
programmes, in verse, on the history of navigation and orientation.
From
Salford to Jericho
Ninety-minute verse drama for BBC Radio 4.
To
Bahia and Beyond
With Glyn Maxwell. Five thirty-minute verse/travelogue features
from Brazil and the Amazon for BBC Radio 3.
The
Bayeux Tapestry
Six part dramatisation for BBC Radio 3, with Geoff Young.
Armitage
and Moore’s Guide to Song
Writer and co-presenter, BBC Radio 4 .
The
Odyssey
Forthcoming– three-part dramatisation, BBC Radio 4, 2004.
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