Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation, and a playwright, travel writer and song lyricist. He has written extensively for radio and television. His books include All Points North, Zoom!, Xanadu, Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, Moon Country (with Glyn Maxwell) and CloudCuckooLand. As a broadcaster he presented BBC Radio 4's poetry series Stanza for five years, made travel programmes in Iceland and the Amazon for BBC Radio 3, and was once a Radio 1 DJ for two hours. He lives in Huddersfield. His latest book is Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist.

www.simonarmitage.com

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Friday 14th March

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CANCELLED - Simon Armitage and Stuart Murdoch on being in a band 19.30-20.30

Books

Simon Armitage 'Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist'