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Resources:

Simon Armitage’s Books on Amazon

Selected bibliography
Killing Time
Selected Poems
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Simon Armitage’s ‘Scaremongers’ website.

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire.

As well as being an award-winning poet, (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), Simon Armitage 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 dramatisation of The Odyssey, commissioned by the BBC, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004. He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA.  Anthologies include Short and Sweet – 101 Very Short Poems, a selection of Ted Hughes’ poetry and The Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with Robert Crawford). ‘Songbirds’ included on this site is a multi-award winning film directed by Brian Hill of Century Films.

His most recent work includes a translation of the middle English classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and a collection of poems, Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Simon Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

See the English and Media Centre’s website for details of the teaching resource from which the video reading of ‘Harmonium’ is taken.