An Evening with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Presented by: Red Duet Productions

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0	SANDWICH: St Mary's Church
P	Thursday 3rd November, 2022
N	6:30pm

Event information

An unmissable evening with the UK Poet Laureate...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was born and grew up in West Yorkshire. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the PEN Prize for Translation. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including Magnetic Field, and acclaimed medieval translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur, Pearl and this year's The Owl and the Nightingale. He is the author of two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers: All Points North, Walking Home and Walking Away. A regular broadcaster, Armitage presents the popular BBC Radio 4’s series The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed . He writes extensively for television and radio, most recently for BBC 2’s Where Did The World Go, A Pandemic Poem. An award-winning dramatist, his play The Last Days of Troy was performed at Shakespeare's Globe. He writes, records and performs with the band LYR and has received an Ivor Novello Award for his song writing. Armitage is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His critical book A Vertical Art brings together the vibrant and engaging lectures from his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry (2015-2019). www.simonarmitage.co.uk

Delighted to announce that The Margate Book Shop will be supplying a range of Simon Armitage's books for guests to purchase on the evening and there will be a book signing opportunity with Simon too. www.themargatebookshop.com