Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage was born in 1963 and lives in West Yorkshire. He has published nine volumes of poetry, the most recent being Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid (Faber, 2006). He has won numerous awards and prizes and been shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His dramatisation of The Odyssey, commissioned by the BBC, was broadcast on Radio 4 and the book, Homer’s Odyssey – A Retelling, is published by Faber and Faber in the UK and by Norton in the US.
Simon Armitage has written for over a dozen television films, and received an Ivor Novello Award for his song-lyrics in the Channel 4 film Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA. In 2006 he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize.
Simon Armitage has taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, and is currently a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. His translation of the middle English classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, commissioned by Faber & Faber in the UK and Norton in the US, was published in 2007.
His prose work includes two novels and the best-selling memoir All Points North, (Penguin 1998) which was the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year. His latest book Gig was published by Penguin in April 2008.
Titles
Gig (Penguin, 2008)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Faber & Faber, 2007)
Homer’s Odyssey- A Retelling (Faber & Faber, 2006)
Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Corduroy Kid (Faber & Faber, 2006)
The Universal Home Doctor (Faber & Faber, 2004)
King Arthur in the East Riding (Penguin, 2005)
The White Stuff (Penguin, 2005)
Cloudcuckooland (Faber & Faber, 2004)
Travelling Songs (Faber & Faber, 2002)
Kid (Faber & Faber, 2002)
The Dead Sea Poems (Faber & Faber, 2001)
Book of Matches (Faber & Faber, 2001)
Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2001)
Little Green Man (Viking, 2001)
Mister Heracles (Faber & Faber, 2000)
Killing Time (Faber & Faber, 1999)
All Points North (Penguin, 1999)
Xanadu (Bloodaxe Books Ltd 1992)
Zoom! (Bloodaxe Books Ltd 1989)