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“A washing line strung from our house to theirs, / those neighbourly neighbours, settlers / from a lost age and a childless planet.” From his attic, Simon Armitage reads his poem “Miniatures” from his latest collection, Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems (Faber & Faber, 2020).
“I was a very sleepy student until we started reading Ted Hughes...and I just woke up.” Simon Armitage talks to the U.K. Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport about what first drew him to poetry and why the medium has only grown more important in recent years. Armitage was named the twenty-first U.K. poet laureate.
