Book description
This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage's work
as well as offering a retrospective of one of the brightest stars of
contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to
date, Selected Poems includes work from six published volumes, from
Zoom! (1989) through to the poem commissioned for the Millennium,
Killing Time.
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was
winner of one of the first Forward Prizes, and a year later was the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He works as a freelance writer,
broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and
television. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea
Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time, The Universal Home Doctor, Homer's
Odyssey and Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid. His acclaimed
translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2007.
