New Cemetery

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous mast...

Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid ...

An anthology of unforgettable poems by, for and about parents

New Cemetery

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, anexperience recounted in hi...

Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projec...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done th...

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, reader...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of...

Originating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh tells th...

''A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.'' Independent on Sunday''The crafted ...

Short and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no...

A poet, at a desk, in a shed. A shed which is temple, bunker, study and look-out post all rolled ...

The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of...

In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Ho...

Poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University Simon Armitage has bee...

'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday TimesAfter more than a decade and following ...

A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOU...

The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home,...

Simon Armitage è considerato uno dei maggiori poeti contemporanei di lingua inglese, erede di una...

'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times________...

Simon Armitage''s new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramati...

Following his highly acclaimed dramatization of the Odyssey, Simon Armitage here takes on the fat...

'The Universal Home Doctor' is Simon Armitage's most personal collection of poems yet. The poems ...

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armi...

Originally published in hardcover: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co., 2005.

Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea P...

WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief...

As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys read...

First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spect...

Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortli...

One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - achallenging 256-mile route usually ...

Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his...

One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the s...

From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage ha...

'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph_____________________________A poet is a rock star without the ...

By the Poet LaureateThe Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem...

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer''s epic as a series of dramat...

Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country's most original and engaging poets; bu...

Simon Armitage, the acclaimed poet who brought Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to vivid life in '...

From the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful colle...

One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armita...

'One of the earliest literary works to be written in Middle English and one of the first comic po...

Anthology celebrating the winner, shortlistees & other contributors to the second Brotherton Poet...

''[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, o...

The poems collected in Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems were composed by Poet Laureate Simon Ar...

In Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' wh...