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When writing of Ted Hughes Armitage has spoken of the older poet's  'cataloguing of the natural world', but Armitage's directory is of an equally comprehensive kind. The cast of clearly-described characters which runs through his work eschews the easy flash of the pop-reference or cultural shout-out; whether describing a latter-day supermarket or a family meal it is the specific details - observed and very probably lived - which authenticate the experience while simultaneously offering them as examples of everyday sacrament. Often in his poetry the contemporary northern landscape presents a distinctly unpoetic and counter-cultural backdrop, be it in the form of post-industrial decay, dying moorland communities or climate-change weather, forcing the poet to pry into the into the roots and archaeology of his upbringing in search of meaning, identity and comfort.

With his acute eye for modern life, Armitage is an updated version of Wordsworth's "man talking to men" for

Simon Armitage | Biography, British Poet Laureate, Playwright ...

Simon Robert Armitage CBE, FRSL (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist.

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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

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Simon Armitage (born May 26, , Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees], England) is a British poet, playwright, and novelist whose poetry is attuned to modern life and vernacular language and has been regarded as both accessible and revelatory.