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    -WIKIPEDIA: Simon Armitage
    -AUTHOR SITE: SimonArmitage.com
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Simon Armitage (IMDB)
    -FACULTY PAGE: Simon Armitage (University of Leeds)
    -BOOK PAGE: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (W.S. Norton)
    -PODCAST: Poetry with Simon Armitage (Oxford)
    -ESSAY: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: an introduction (Simon Armitage, 31 Jan 2018, British Library: Discovering Literature: Medieval)
    -ESSAY: The knight's tale : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetry, but little is known about the author - except hints that he came from the north of England. How could fellow poet and Northerner Simon Armitage resist the challenge of translating this grisly story for a modern audience? (Simon Armitage, 16 Dec 2006, The Guardian)
    -POEM: Poem of the week: The Straight and Narrow by Simon Armitage: A school visit by a careers adviser is the occasion for an unexpected epiphany and some ‘West Yorkshire magic realism’ (Carol Rumens, 28 May 2018, The Guardian)
    -VIDEO LECTURE: Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage, 23 Nov 2018, The Michaelmas Term 2018 Lecture)
    -INTERVIEW: ‘Bringing Gawain Home’: Simon Armitage on Translating ‘The Green Knight’ (Dennis Abrams, August 29, 2017, Publishing Perspectives)
    -PODCAST: “Swimming through Bricks”: A Conversation with Simon Armitage (Rob Roensch and Quinn Carpenter Weedon, World Literature Today)
    -PODCAST: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Simon Armitage (Melvyn Bragg, Dec 13 2018, In Our Time)
    -PODCAST: Poet Simon Armitage on his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage talks to James Naughtie, 11 December 2018, BCC 4 Book Club)
    -LECTURE: Simon Armitage, 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize Judge, Opens the 2006 Awards Ceremony
    -LECTURE: Out of the Blue: Order from Chaos: Award-winning English poet Simon Armitage reads several of his poems, including a commemorative of September 11, 2001 and his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Simon Armitage, Apr 9, 2010, Boston University)
    -VIDEO: BBC Four The Making of King Arthur: Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend (Simon Armitage, BBC)
    -POEMS: Two Poems (Simon Armitage, 6/05/97, London Review of Books)
    -POEM: Of Two Knights Stationed in Neighbouring Castles (Simon Armitage, 20 August 1992, London Review of Books)
    -POEM: For the Record (Simon Armitage, 21 August 1997, London Review of Books)
    -POEM: Deor (Simon Armitage, 21 February 2013, London Review of Books)
    -POEMS: Three Poems (Simon Armitage, 22 July 1993, London Review of Books)
    -POEM: The Invasion (Simon Armitage, 23 July 2009, London Review of Books)
    -LECTURE: Unseasonal Produce (Simon Armitage, edited version of a lecture given by Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage at Examination Schools, Oxford University, on 19 May 2018, The Poetry Review)
    -POEM: The Invigilator (Simon Armitage, August 2014, Australian Book Review)
    -VIDEO: 'The Brink' a film specifically created for Art 50. Written and performed by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, it explores post-Brexit British identity and meditates on the relationship between Britain and Europe (Simon Armitage, Sky: Arts)
    -EXCERPT: from Pearl (Financial Times)
    -EXCERPT: Pearl Lines 973-1092 Simon Armitage (PN Review)
    -ESSAY: 'Writing was just for fun then': Simon Armitage on writing Zoom!: The poet laureate reflects on capturing life as it appeared to a West Yorkshire twentysomething in the collection that launched his career (Simon Armitage, 9/19/20, The Guardian)
    -ENTRY: Simon Armitage (Poetry Foundation)
    -ENTRY: Simon Armitage (British Council: Literature)
    -ENTRY: Simon Armitage (Poem Hunter)
    -ENTRY: Simon Armitage (Poetry Archive)
    -ENTRY: Simon Armitage (Poets.org)
    -ENTRY: Simon Armitage: British poet, playwright, and novelist (Patricia Bauer, Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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    -INTERVIEW: Simon Armitage: ‘You’re not going to get me to say anything bad about any bird’: As part of Australian Poetry Month, the UK’s poet laureate shares his least favourite word and his most controversial pop culture opinion (Steph Harmon, 3 Aug 2024, The Guardian)
    -INTERVIEW: ‘I’m more optimistic’: poet laureate Simon Armitage tells of Britain’s great ordeal (Vanessa Thorpe, 12/26/20, The Guardian)
    -PROFILE: Simon Armitage: ‘Nature has come back to the centre of poetry’: The poet laureate’s new prize for a collection that focuses on the environment highlights a crisis that can no longer be ignored, plus an exclusive new poem (Alison Flood, 21 Nov 2019, The guardian)
    -PROFILE: The language of politics is 'shallow and threadbare', says poet laureate: Simon Armitage criticised politicians’ use of cliches in a discussion about ‘truth’, this year’s theme for National Poetry Day (Alison Flood and Jade Cuttle, 3 Oct 2019, The Guardian)
    -PROFILE: How our poet laureate has embraced his new role (Richard Brooks, 22 Sep 2019, The Guardian)
    -PROFILE: Moon landing poem launches Simon Armitage as poet laureate: Conquistadors – reproduced exclusively below – knits memories of first love and the Apollo 11 pioneers with reflections on colonialism. Read it below (Alison Flood, 27 Jul 2019, The Guardian)
    -INTERVIEW: Simon Armitage: ‘I always thought, if Ted Hughes can do it why can’t I?’: Grit, wit and a focus on the everyday made the 21st poet laureate a popular choice. He shares his plans for his tenure, his aversion to ‘big P political poetry’ and the rejected poem that got him started (Lisa Allardice, 7 Jun 2019, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: ‘Language is my enemy – I spend my life battling with it’: The poet on creative chaos, the cathartic effect of table tennis and writing on the undersole of a slipper (Simon Armitage, 3/25/17, The Guardian)
    -AUDIO PROFILE: He's the post-punk storyteller with a taste for panto and The Smiths (Becky Milligan, 5/18/19, BBC 4)
    -PROFILE: Simon Armitage, Oxford Poetry Professor, Finds Inspiration in the Mundane (NY Times, 7/11/15)
    -PROFILE: The deadly serious poet’s society: Simon Armitage, 46, on rejection, perfect steak – and why he never writes poetry drunk and always by hand (Anmar Frangoul, May 23 2010, Times [London])
    -PROFILE: There goes rhymin' Simon: Bit of a lad, was Armitage, well before `Loaded'... And eight years after he first shot to fame, he still manages to remain a Nice Ordinary Bloke - as well as Our Best Young Poet (even at 34) (Suzi Feay, 21 September 1997, Independent)
    -INTERVIEW: Simon Armitage Interview (Conducted by Mike Alexander in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, during the sixth annual San Miguel Poetry Week, Monday, January 7, 2002, Sonnets.org)
    -INTERVIEW: Interview: Simon Armitage (Emma Hewitt, 16th February 2014, Cherwell)
    -INTERVIEW: Jaundiced Reality: Simon Armitage Interviewed (Alex MacDonald , October 12th, 2014, Quietus)
    -PROFILE: Literary Life: Simon Armitage on the art of dissent: The poet talks about his new collection and why the ‘small, quiet, strong voice’ is more vital today than ever (Suzi Feay, MARCH 17 2017, Financial Times)
    -INTERVIEW: Style Counsel: Simon Armitage has been acclaimed by Poetry Review as ‘the front man of his generation … the most imaginative and prolific poet now writing’. He speaks, says the Times, ‘with an utter lack of sentimentality or pomposity of the transcendent mysteries that lie beyond the ordinary moment.’ (Simon Jones, 27 September 2005, High Profiles)
    -INTERVIEW: Simon Armitage: ‘The events of this year are all I can see and think about’: The poet laureate talks to Laura Barton about life in lockdown, keeping up with changes in language, and why writing the words for the first album of his musical project LYR has been ‘like dissecting a rat’ (Laura Barton, 02 July 2020, Independent)
    -INTERVIEW: Simon Armitage: The poet discusses his brand new collection and his many other creative projects. (STEVEN FRASER, 28 AUGUST 2017, The Wee Review)
    -PROFILE: Oxonian Bob Dylan: Camille Ralphs hears Simon Armitage talk about the lyrical art of a great songwriter (Camille Ralphs, TLS)
    -INTERVIEW: The Unaccompanied: An Interview with Simon Armitage (Leah Broad, JUNE 18, 2015, The Oxford Culture Review
    -INTERVIEW: FOUR QUESTIONS FOR SIMON ARMITAGE, WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION (Allison Powell, Mary Ann Newman, July 6, 2017, PEN America)
    -INTERVIEW: Homer is where the art is: In adapting 'The Odyssey' for radio, Simon Armitage took a great epic poem back to its roots. (Tom Payne, 26 August 2004, The Telegraph)
    -INTERVIEW: Simon Armitage on The Odyssey, Liverpool Everyman: Following last year's Lily Cole-starring dramatisation of The Iliad, Simon Armitage now turns his hand to Homer's other great work. We caught up with the poet to discuss The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, which premieres at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre (Michael Pedersen | 25 Sep 2015, The Skinny)
    -Web Resources for Pearl-poet Study: A Vetted Selection
    -AUDIO BOOK: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (LibriVox)
    -ESSAY: Translating Troubles: Alliterative Verse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Alicia Espinosa, WR: Journal of the CAS Writing Program)
    -ESSAY: 10 of the Best Simon Armitage Poems Everyone Should Read (Dr Oliver Tearle, Interesting Literature)
    -ARCHIVES: Simon Armitage (Poeticious)
    -ARCHIVES: Simon Armitage (Financial Times)
    -REVIEW ARCHIVES: Simon Armitage (Publishers Weekly)
    -ARCHIVES: Simon Armitage (Paris Review)
    -ARCHIVES: armitage (Poetry Archive)
    -ARCHIVES: simon armitage (London Review of Books)
    -ARCHIVES: Simon Armitage (The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage (Chloe Todd Fordham, The Observer)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Nicholas Lezard, the Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Edward Hirsch, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Frank Kermode, London Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (John Garth, The Telegraph)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Chauncey Mabe, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Eric Ormsby, NY Sun)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Michael Glover, Independent)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Tom Bourguignon, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Penry Buckley, Cherwell)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Christopher Rush, Slightly Foxed)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Jordi Sánchez-Martí, University of Alicante)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Tom Shippey, WSJ)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Susannah Mandel, Strange Horizons)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Bernard Norcott-Mahany, Kansas City Library)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (The Poetician)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (The Wycoller Scarecow)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Rebecca Reid, Rebecca Reads)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Alex C. Telander, Bookbanter)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (All Manner of Things)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Paul Deane, Forgotten Ground Regained)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Pechorin's Journal)
    -REVIEW: of Sir Gawain (Murrey and Blue)
    -REVIEW: of Pearl, translated by Simon Armitage (Peter Pierce, Sydney Morning Herald)
    -REVIEW: of Pearl (Robert Hawkins, London Magazine)
    -REVIEW: of Pearl (Josephine Livingstone, The New Yorker)
    -REVIEW: of Pearl ( Jeremy Noel-Tod, Times [uk]
    -REVIEW: of Pearl (Phil Brown, Huffington Post)
    -REVIEW: of Pearl (Greg Brown, World Literature Today)
    -REVIEW: of Pearl (Siew-Teip Looi, Southeast Asian Review of English)
    -REVIEW: of Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage (David Wheatley, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Sandette Light Vessel Automatic (Alice Wilson, Cherwell)
    -REVIEW: of Sandette Light Vessel Automatic (David Sexton, Evening Standard)
    -REVIEW: of Sandette Light Vessel Automatic (Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph)
    -REVIEW: of Sandette Light Vessel Automatic (Hannah Bradburn, Oxford Student)
    -REVIEW: of Sandette Light Vessel Automatic (Jeremy Noel-Tod, Times [london])
    -REVIEW: of Sandette Light Vessel Automatic
    -REVIEW: of The Unaccompanied by Simon Armitage (Kate Kellaway, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of The Unaccompanied (Helen Mort, Poetry Society)
    -REVIEW: of The Unaccompanied (Andrew Roycroft, Thinking Pastorally)
    -REVIEW: of The Unaccompanied (Sean O'Brien, TLS)
    -REVIEW: of Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage (Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph)
    -REVIEW: of Killing Time by Simon Armitage (Dennis O'Driscoll, London Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Walking Home by Simon Armitage (Christina Hardyment, Times [London])
    -REVIEW: of Walking Home (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Walking Home (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of WALKING AWAY: Further travels with a troubadour on the South West Coast Path by Simon Armitage (Nat Segnit, TLS)
    -REVIEW: of Little Green Man (Ian Sanson, London Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic by Simon Armitage (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Odyssey (Oliver Taplin, the Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Odyssey (James Parker, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Moon Country by Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell (Michael Wagg, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Moon Country (Ian Sansom, London Review of Books)
    -PLAY REVIEW: of The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead by Simon Armitage and Nick Bagnall (Susannah Clapp, The Observer)
    -PLAY REVIEW: of The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (Michael Billington, The Guardian)
    -PLAY REVIEW: of Hansel & Gretel review – Armitage's dystopian horror, with puppets: In this striking modern update, set to words by Simon Armitage and music by Matthew Kaner, the children are refugees and the fairytale is a nightmare (Rian Evans, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Gig by Simon Armitage (Beards and Triathlons)
    -REVIEW: of Walking Home and Walking Away by Simon Armitage (Beards and Triathlons)