Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage (born 1963 in Huddersfield) is a poet, playwright and novelist. He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds (in West Yorkshire, where he lives) and the University of Iowa.

After much work in film, radio and television, and a lot of published poetry, Simon Armitage wrote All Points North (1999), a collection of essays on the north of England. The novel Little Green Man followed in 2001, and a second novel, White Stuff is expected in 2004.

Table of contents

1 Bibliography

1.1 Poetry
1.2 Novels
1.3 Other

2 External link

Bibliography

Poetry

Zoom, collection (1989)
Xanadu, collection (1992)
Kid, collection (1992)
Book of Matches, collection (1993)
The Dead Sea Poems, collection (1995)
Cloud Cuckooland, collection (1997)
"Killing Time (poem)", thousand-line poem, commissioned for the Millennium (1999)
Selected Poems, collection (2001)
The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, collections published together (2002)

Novels

Little Green Man (2001)
White Stuff (to be published 2004)

Other

Moon Country, co-written with Glyn Maxwell (1996)
All Points North, essays/"travel guide" (1999)
Mister Herakles, stage play (2000)