In 2010 the Yorkshire-born Poet Laureate Simon Armitage collaborated with Ilkley Literature Festival to create a series of ...

The National Trust commissioned Simon Armitage to write ... Mr Armitage was born in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a professor of poetry at the University of Leeds ...

Can an astonishing fish help the Poet Laureate write an animal poem? Simon Armitage meets Feargal Sharkey, pop star, fisherman, and river campaigner - as well as the poet Daljit Nagra - and ...

Simon Armitage said the centre would create a lasting legacy from his tenure of Poet Laureate Plans for a National Poetry Centre in Leeds are being developed to mark the appointment of Simon ...

This isn’t the first time Simon Armitage has written a poem dedicated to the Queen. To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, he wrote a poem called Queenhood, a seven-part poem ...

Over the course of six short clips, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of some of his most famous poems. These clips are from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Suitable for ...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is embarking on the next leg of his 10-year tour of the UK’s libraries, visiting L to M Libraries. Each spring this decade, Armitage is giving readings in libraries ...

And quite a lot of it is junk. SIMON ARMITAGE:It's something of a dispiriting poem in that respect, but poems can be gloomy sometimes, and so can I. Simon Armitage reads his poem ‘A Vision ...

Three “outstanding” figures have been granted Freedom of the Borough as Kirklees Council gets ready to mark its 50th anniversary. Volunteer and fundraiser Mrs Joan Gorton from Dalton, Mirfield ...

Is it possible to capture a tiger in a poem? The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has written a lot about animals in the past, but always at a distance. He wants that to change - to feel that he has ...

This clip is from the series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Students could carry out some prior research into the condition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in people who have experienced conflict.