Armitage, Simon.

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Newcastle upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books, 1989. 14 cm x 21,5 cm. 80 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor foxing. [Poetry Book Society Choice]

Includes for example the following poems: Snow Joke / Phenomenology / A Painted Bird for Thomas Szasz /An Ornithology of the Americas etc etc.

Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist. On 19 June 2015, Armitage was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, succeeding Geoffrey Hill.
Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and grew up in the village of Marsden. Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic. He was a post-graduate student at the University of Manchester where his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as probation officer in Greater Manchester. In 1996 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Portsmouth. He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds, the University of Iowa, and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has made literary, history and travel programmes for BBC Radios 3 and 4; and since 1992 he has written and presented a number of TV documentaries. In February 2011 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield.
He lives in West Yorkshire. He is a lifelong Huddersfield Town fan and makes many references to supporting his local team in his book All Points North. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: From the Archive / Library of John and Hilary Wakeman [Poetry Magazine THE SHOP] · John & Hilary Wakeman Poetry Collection · Library & Collection Building · Poetry · Poetry – Rare · Wakeman Poetry Collection & Archive
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852240784
• Inventory Number: 43081AB