In the book, Moth is mistaken for Simon Armitage, the poet, by people who clearly have no idea what Armitage looks like. He looks much better than I was expecting, a bit pale but with a big smile. Raynor questions Moth for not denying he was this Simon, but his anger at the mix-ups in the past has now grown to be a source of amusement for him, thinking of how the real Simon will react to.
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April 6, 2021. THE WILD SILENCE. By Raynor Winn. "The Wild Silence" continues the story Raynor Winn began in her well-received 2019 memoir, "The Salt Path," but one can enjoy the sequel on. (Throughout the book, passers-by regularly mistake Moth for Armitage.) Although I enjoyed the lyricism of the writing of Walking Away more than The Salt Path, Ray and Moth's story has a depth and necessity that Simon's walk along the path lacked. Simon Armitage walked the coastal path to test himself and to test the kindness of strangers. Now nature has very much come back into the centre of what poetry can, and should, be dealing with.". The Laurel will come with a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £2,000 and a third. Simon Robert Armitage CBE, FRSL (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds.. He has published over 20 collections of poetry, starting with Zoom! in 1989. Many of his poems concern his home town in West Yorkshire; these are collected in Magnetic Field: The Marsden.
Walking Away by Simon Armitage review the South West Coast Path with a fine comic guide
Founded in June 2010 by Rebecca O'Connor and Will Govan, The Moth is an iconic quarterly printed art & literature magazine featuring poetry, short fiction and art by established and up-and-coming writers and artists. Each issue also features two interviews - with the likes of Sally Rooney, Simon Armitage, Evie Wyld, Kamila Shamsie, Gary. Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees], England) British poet, playwright, and novelist whose poetry is attuned to modern life and vernacular language and has been regarded as both accessible and revelatory. His works were widely anthologized and have been broadly popular. In 2019 Armitage became poet laureate of Great Britain. Armitage knows the place well - he is a patron of the Friends of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. His tour has hardly been exhaustive (we're yet to come across a Henry Moore) but I'm starving. He was made a C.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday honours 2010 and was elected as Oxford University's Professor of Poetry in 2015. Simon Armitage's first recording for The Poetry Archive was made on 12th July 2005 at the Audio Workshop, London, while his second was made at the Soundhouse, London on 28th July 2016.
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The Summit by Simon Armitage When I met the glacier face to face there was no coming together of skin and ice, just washy clouds and a weepy sky floating upside down in a silver lake, and the eyes. That is not to suggest that the book is gloomy. It's not, in the slightest. There are wonderful moments of humour, such as when Moth is repeatedly mistaken for the poet Simon Armitage, who was also walking the coast path at the time. The descriptions of the landscape are lyrically observed and magically drawn.
The Unaccompanied, by Simon Armitage Faber & Faber, 76pp, £14.99. The bare winter larch trees become "widowed princesses in moth-eaten furs". In "Poor Old Soul" an elderly man sits, "hunched and skeletal under a pile of clothes,/a Saxon king unearthed in a ditch". This is the measured poetry of late middle-age, in which only the. Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage is published by Faber. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £15, online orders only.
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Biography. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer. Simon Armitage says poets have had their money's worth from nature and it's time "to pay something back". After a "life-changing" visit to the Arctic, poet laureate Simon Armitage says poets can.
