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Simon Armitage

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Simon Armitage

  • Simon Armitage
    The Sunday Poem: The Overload by Simon Armitage

    A new poem by the poet laureate

    Sun, 7 Dec 2025

  • Simon Armitage
    ‘What would Wordsworth have said seeing me guzzling this lot?’

    A memorable meal in Wordsworth country prompts his fellow poet laureate to try his hand at prose

    Sat, 31 May 2025

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