Simon Armitage
Writing · Writer
Born May 26, 1963 · Marsden, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Active 1995–present · Awards: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Eric Gregory Award, Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cholmondeley Award, honorary doctorate, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Simon Robert Armitage, CBE, FRSL is an English poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019.
Filmography
Songbirds (2007) - WriterBBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2009) - WriterModern Times (1995) - WriterThe Making of King Arthur (2010) - WriterGods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey (2010) - Host · WriterThe Raft of the Medusa (2015) - WriterDrinking for England (1998) - WriterCelebrity Mastermind (2003)Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death (2015)A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go? (2021) - WriterClimate of Change (2010) - WriterThe Not Dead (2007) - WriterOut of the Blue (2006) - WriterFeltham Sings (2003) - WriterBlack Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster (2015) - WriterLast Words (2017) - Writer