Simon Armitage: Poems Simon Armitage

Poetry collections

• Zoom! (Bloodaxe Books, 1989)
• Kid (Faber and Faber, 1992)
• Xanadu (Bloodaxe Books, 1992)
• Book of Matches (Faber and Faber, 1993)
• The Dead Sea Poems (Faber and Faber, 1995)
• CloudCuckooLand (Faber and Faber, 1997)
• Killing Time (Faber and Faber, 1999)
• Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2001, contains poems from 6 earlier books)
• The Universal Home Doctor (Faber and Faber, 2002)
• Travelling Songs (Faber and Faber, 2002)
• The Shout: Selected Poems (Harcourt, 2005)
• Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (Faber and Faber, 2006)
• The Not Dead (Pomona Books, 2008)
• Out of the Blue (Enitharmon Press, 2008)
• Seeing Stars (Faber and Faber, 2010)
• Stanza Stones (Enitharmon Press, 2013)
• Paper Aeroplane, Selected Poems 1989–2014 (Faber and Faber, 2014, contains poems from earlier collections)
• Still – A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield (Enitharmon Press, 2016)
• The Unaccompanied (Faber and Faber, 2017)
• Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (Faber and Faber, 2019)
• Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems (Faber and Faber, 2020, contains poems from earlier collections)

Translation

• Homer's Odyssey (2006)[146]

• The Death of King Arthur (2012), a translation of the Alliterative Morte Arthure[147]
• Pearl (2017)
• Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (2018) [2007], new revised translation, illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
• The Owl and the Nightingale (2021)

Pamphlets and limited editions

• Human Geography (Smith/Doorstop Books, 1986)
• Distance Between Stars (Wide Skirt, 1987)
• The Walking Horses (Slow Dancer, 1988)
• Around Robinson (Slow Dancer, 1991)
• The Anaesthetist (Clarion, Illustrated by Velerii Mishin, 1994)
• Five Eleven Ninety Nine (Clarion, Illustrated by Toni Goffe, 1995)
• Machinery of Grace: A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (Poetry Society, 2005), Contributor
• The North Star (University of Aberdeen, 2006), Contributor
• The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2010)
• In Memory of Water – The Stanza Stones poems. (Wood engravings by Hilary Paynter. Fine Press Poetry, 2013)
• Considering the Poppy – (Wood engravings by Chris Daunt. Fine Press Poetry, 2014)
• Waymarkings – (Wood engravings by Hilary Paynter. Fine Press Poetry, 2016)
• New Cemetery (Published by propolis, 2017)
• Exit the Known World – (Wood engravings by Hilary Paynter. Fine Press Poetry, 2018)
• Flit – (Poetry and photographs by Simon Armitage. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2018, 40th anniversary edition)
• Hansel and Gretel – (A new narrative poem by Simon Armitage, illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Design for Today, 2019)
• Gymnasium – (Drawings by Antony Gormley. Fine Press Poetry, 2019)
• Tract – (Paintings by Hughie O'Donoghue. Fine Press Poetry, 2021)
• The Bed – (Painting by Alison Watt. Fine Press Poetry, 2021)
• 70 Notices – (A celebration to mark 70 years of The Peak District as a National Park. Frontispiece by David Robertson. Fine Press Poetry, 2021)
• Queenhood - (A poem for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Faber, 2022)
• Tribute: Three Commemorative Poems (Faber, 2022)
• LX – (A signed limited edition pamphlet to celebrate Armitage's 60th birthday. Faber, 2023)
• The Cryosphere (Faber, 2023)
• Blossomise (Faber/National Trust, 2024)

Books

As editor

• Penguin Modern Poets: Book 5 (with Sean O'Brien and Tony Harrison, 1995)
• The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (with Robert Crawford, 1998)
• Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems (1999)
• Ted Hughes Poems: Selected by Simon Armitage (2000)
• The Poetry of Birds (with Tim Dee, 2009)

As author

• Moon Country (with Glyn Maxwell, 1996)
• Eclipse (1997)
• All Points North (1998)
• Mister Heracles After Euripides (2000)
• Little Green Man (2001)
• The White Stuff (2004)
• King Arthur in the East Riding (Pocket Penguins, 2005)
• Jerusalem (2005)
• The Twilight Readings (2008)
• Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist (2008)
• Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way (2012)
• Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on the South West Coast Path (2015)
• Mansions in the Sky (2017)
• Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics (2023)