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Simon is taking a poem for a walk in Stanza Stones.
Poet and novelist Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in Marsden, near Huddersfield. After studying Geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic, he worked with young offenders and as a probation officer in Oldham until 1994. Simon’s work spans poetry, novels, collections of essays, song lyrics, librettos and stage plays. He has won an Eric Gregory Award, was named ‘Most Promising Young Poet’ at the inaugural Forward Poetry Prize, and Seeing Stars, his 2010 ‘collection of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales’ was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Simon is currently Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004 and was awarded a CBE for services to poetry in 2010.
Stanza Stones
The landscape of Yorkshire is a poem in itself, beautiful and challenging. Simon Armitage has explored the wild glory of the Pennine Watershed and created ‘In Memoryof Water’, a brand new poem sequence which is being inscribed on a series of stones between Ilkley and Marsden. The stones been carved by stone artist Pip Hall...
