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Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage in 2009.jpg
Born Simon Robert Armitage
(1963-05-26) 26 May 1963 (age 53)
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Occupation Poet, translator
Nationality British
Website
simonarmitage.com

Simon Robert Armitage CBE (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist. He is currently a Professor at the University of Sheffield. On 19 June 2015, Armitage was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, succeeding Geoffrey Hill, a part-time position awarded through election.

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; his first poetry collection was called Human Geography (1988). 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 a probation officer in Greater Manchester. He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds, the University of Iowa, and was senior lecturer at 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. From 2009-2012 he was Artist in Residence at London's South Bank, and in February 2011 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield.

He lives in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire. He is a lifelong Huddersfield Town fan and makes many references to supporting his local team in his book All Points North.


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