Author: Simon Armitage

Quotes

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

- Simon Armitage

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

- Simon Armitage

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

- Simon Armitage

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

- Simon Armitage

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