Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage is a British poet, playwright, novelist, and musician whose poetry primarily focuses on relationships and the environment. Armitage's work has been characterized as "formally assured" and often "darkly comic," qualities that distinguish the voices in his poems while also situating them within a poetic tradition. Armitage originally studied geography and social work, and for years worked as a probation officer before quitting to focus full-time on his writing. This background of...
