Armitage, Simon

He studied at the universities of Portsmouth , Leeds , Iowa . He lectures at the Metropolitan University of Manchester .

The Hermitage also writes for radio, film and television. He is the author of the libretto of Stuart McRae 's opera Deadly Tree (2006). Winner of several awards, including the Ivor Novello Prize (2003) for the performance of his own songs. In 2006, he served on the jury of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Booker Prize . He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Poetic Achievements ( 2018 ) ^{[3] [4]} .

Since May 2019 - a British court poet ^[5] .

Poems

• Zoom! (1989, shortlist of the Whitbread Prize )
• Xanadu (1992)
• Kid (1992)
• Book Of Matches (1993)
• The Dead Sea Poems (1995)
• CloudCuckooLand (1997)
• Killing Time (1999)
• Mister Heracles (2000)
• Universal Home Doctor (2002)
• Traveling Songs (2002)
• Homer's Odyssey (2006, poetic drama)
• Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (2006, T. S. Eliot Award Shortlist)
• The Not Dead (2008)
• Out of the Blue (2008)
• Seeing Stars (2010)

Translations

• Homer's Odyssey (2006)
• Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (2007)
• The Death of King Arthur (2011, T. S. Eliot Award Shortlist)

Novels

• Little Green Man (2001)
• The White Stuff (2004)

Essays

• All Points North (1999)

Consolidated Editions

• The shout: selected poems (2005)

• Simon's Songs // New Youth, 2007, No. 4

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